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Olive Schreiner Quotes: We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
         

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.


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If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?



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The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.



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