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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

Alan Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
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
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
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
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
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm
Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Church Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet Understand Work
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
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught

Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

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