Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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