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  1. Alan Paton _ Too Late the Phalarope

    And that next day, he was in the black mood, what we call the swartgalligheid, which is the black gall. And the heart is black too, and the world is black, and one can tell oneself that it will pass, but these are only words that one speaks to oneself, for while it is there it is no comfort that it will pass.
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  2. Alan Paton _ Too Late the Phalarope

    Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.
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  3. Alan Paton _ Too Late the Phalarope

    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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  4. Alan Paton _ Too Late the Phalarope

    But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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  5. Alan Paton _ Too Late the Phalarope

    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, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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