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“The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.”

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“He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.”

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“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is…

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“There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.”

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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

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“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come…

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“In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.”

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“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense…

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And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.…

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“Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence,…

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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man…

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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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