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  • When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it ishis chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

    - Doris May ne  e Tayler Lessing
      The Grass Is Singing, ch.8.

  • It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

    -John Henry Newman
      Apologia pro Vita Sua,'Mr Kingsley's Method of Disputation'.

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