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We enter the world as little plastic beings

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We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest —blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us.

The Story of an African Farm, 1883

Was born on: 24.03.1855
About Author: South African author, pacifist and political activist

Deal us your hardest blow

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

The Story of an African Farm, 1883

Make your thought look anything but imbecile fools

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

The Story of an African Farm, 1883

Everything has two sides

Everything has two sides —the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

The Story of an African Farm, 1883

Troubles of the young are soon over

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off ... you will see the scar there still.

The Story of an African Farm, 1883

Finishing school

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move ...

The Story of an African Farm, 1883

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