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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.

Alan Paton

Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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As Development Exploit Name Such True
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Been Before Bring Come Death Destructive Lighten never Such Thunder
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust

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