Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATONPeople hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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