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Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

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In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

Source: West With the Night, I941.
-- Beryl Markham, (Oct 26 1902-1986), English aviator; She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic east to west, 1936; wrote memoirs in West With the Night, reissued 1983.


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