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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

Alan Paton

Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
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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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
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
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
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
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

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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