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[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 . . .

Source: Lyndall, in The Story of an African Farm, pt. 2, ch. 4, 1883.
-- Olive Schreiner, (Mar 24 1855-1920), South African novelist, feminist; She produced the first great South African novel, The Story of an African Farm, 1883; noted for her powerful intellect, and liberal feminist views.

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