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What need had he of experience? Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

Olive Schreiner

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Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual.

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Pen Names: Ralph Iron

Alternative Names: Olive Emily Albertina Schreiner • Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner • Olive (Emilie Albertina) Schreiner

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Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

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George Eliot Rabindranath Tagore E. M. Forster Victor Hugo Hermann Hesse

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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is.

The bees are very attentive to the flowers until their honey is done, and then they fly over them. I don't know if the flowers feel grateful to the bees, they are great fools if they do.

I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies

What need had he of experience? Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour. - Olive Schreiner

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