Wield an axe two hours per day (Greeley)

December 8th, 2007  |  Published in Health, Quotes

If every youth and man, from fifteen to fifty years old, could wield an axe two hours per day, dyspepsia would vanish from the earth, and rheumatism become decidedly scarce.

–Horace Greeley, Reflections of a Busy Life (1868) as quoted in Scott and Helen Nearing, The Good Life, p. 305

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