It is not, my friends, a question whether a handful of farmers like yourselves go to the workhouse or not.

It is a consumer's question.

Do you produce the maximum of corn to the consumer?
"With respect to myself," continued the orator, warming as the cold he had engendered in his audience became more freezingly felt,--"with respect to myself, I do not deny that, owing to the accident of training for a very faulty and contracted course of education, I have obtained what are called 'honours' at the University of Cambridge; but you must not regard that fact as a promise of any worth in my future passage through life.

Some of the most useless persons--especially narrow-minded and bigoted--have acquired far higher honours at the University than have fallen to my lot.
"I thank you no less for the civil things you have said of me and of my family; but I shall endeavour to walk to that grave to which we are all bound with a tranquil indifference as to what people may say of me in so short a journey.

And the sooner, my friends, we get to our journey's end, the better our chance of escaping a great many pains, troubles, sins, and diseases.