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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Paton

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
ALAN PATON

Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON

As Development Exploit Name Such True
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATON

All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATON

Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATON

Men Work
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATON

All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATON

Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATON

Again Mend Thing Tragedy
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATON

Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Much Rob Too
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATON

Been Could Dwell Habit never

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