Thought for the Week:
Sin looks much more terrible to those who look at it than to those who do it. .4 convict, or a man who drinks, seems something so far off and horrible when we sec him) but to himself he seems quite near to us, and like us. We wonder what kind of a creature he is; but he is just we, ourselves. TUe arc only the wood, the knife that carves on us is the circumstance —Olive Schreiner, in "The Story of An African Farm.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 12 (Supplement)
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89Thought for the Week: Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 12 (Supplement)
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