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husbandry
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Definition:1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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And when he ought not pleasing would put by
The cloke was care of thrift, and husbandry,
For to encrease the common treasures store.
Herbert Spenser. Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale (1591)
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
The husbandry and manage of my house
William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
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As to persons of quality, they give security to appropriate a certain sum for each child, suitable to their condition; and these funds are always managed with good husbandry and the most exact justice.Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Now, in our own day, we landowners in the serf times used various improvements in our husbandry: drying machines and thrashing machines, and carting manure and all the modern implements—all that we brought into use by our authority, and the peasants opposed it at first, and ended by imitating us. Now, by the abolition of serfdom we have been deprived of our authority; and so our husbandry, where it had been raised to a high level, is bound to sink to the most savage primitive condition.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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