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We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest --blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us.

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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