A farmer may by chance get a good crop by seeding on unplowed stubble land, but he must feel that he is engaged in the business of trying to cheat himself, like the boy playing solitaire-he does not let his right hand know what his left hand is doing.
"Rural Life and the Rural School"
Joseph Kennedy
I could not inflict what I would not endure myself" "So is Greek excluded from the later generations; and you leave a field, the most fertile in the moralities in youth, unplowed and unsown.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
No farmer goes out and plants grain on the unplowed field.
"Principles of Teaching"
Adam S. Bennion