Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstances, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same material one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas. Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 7
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