Lynn Thompson
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669 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mountain brooks are always current.
The gold on the grain is never counterfeit.
The sunrise never flaunts its false colours.
The Jew sports only genuine diamonds.
Taking farmers as a class, I believe they are truthful, and fair in dealing, and kind hearted, and
But the regions surrounding our cities do not always send this sort of men to our markets.
Day by day there creep through our streets and about the market houses a
Farm wagons that have not an honest spoke in their wheels.
or a truthful rivet from tongue to tailboard.
During the last few years there have been times when domestic economy has foundered on the farmer's furkin.
Neither high taxes nor the high price of dry goods, nor the exorbitancy of labour could excuse much that the city has witnessed in the behaviour of the yeomanry.
By the quiet firesides of Westchester and Bucks counties, I hope there may be seasons of deep reflection and hearty repentance.
Rural districts are accustomed to rail at great cities as given up to fraud and every form of unrighteousness, but our cities do not absorb all the abominations.
Our citizens have learned the importance of not always trusting to the size and style of apples in the top of a farmer's barrel as an indication of what may be found farther down.
Many of our people are accustomed to watch to see how correctly a bushel of beets is measured.
And there are not many honest milk cans.
Deceptions do not all cluster around city halls.
When our cities sit down and weep over their sins, all the surrounding counties ought to come in and weep with them.
There is often hostility on the part of producers against traders.
As though the man who raises the corn were necessarily more honourable than the grain dealer.
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