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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.

Beryl Markham

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
BERYL MARKHAM

Beyond Children Dream Hope Need
She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.
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Character Freedom Gently Liberation
Success breeds confidence.
BERYL MARKHAM

Confidence Inspirational Success
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.
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Adventure Air Knowing
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
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Achieve Dignity Work
The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
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Dark Landmarks Light Rocks
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
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Guilty Hunches Inspired
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker’s rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend.
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Boys Children Friends Good
At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.
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Deathly Elephant Species Sting
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
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Errors Inspirational Thinking
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.
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Clouds Distance Years
There are many Africas.
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Country Many People
Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company – and so talk goes out through the lips.
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Lips Lonely Many Men Sometimes
I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all.
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Friend Good Responsibility Wall
There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
BERYL MARKHAM

Book Country Many Things
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe.
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Animal Mountain Nature

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