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Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld) Quotes
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″‘Distant hills are always green,’ and the best gold further on.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
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Jock of the Bushveld
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gold
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distant
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hills
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grass is always greener
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“How the little things that mark a new departure stamp themselves indelibly on the memory!”
Percy Fitzpatrick
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Jock of the Bushveld
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memories
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making memories
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the little things
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03
“Common sense is not cowardice.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
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common sense
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cowardice
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not being
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04
“Of the people who live lonely lives, on the veld or elsewhere, few do so of their own free choice.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
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Jock of the Bushveld
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lonely
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no choices
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05
″...fortune holds some gifts in store for those who try;”
Percy Fitzpatrick
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Jock of the Bushveld
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gifts
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trying
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good fortune
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fortunes
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06
“The little child that lies hidden in us all reached out- as in the dark- for a hand to hold; and there was none.”
nobody
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Percy Fitzpatrick
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Jock of the Bushveld
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Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
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the Boy (Jock of the Bushveld)
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holding hands
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child
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inner child
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07
“It is well to pitch one’s expectations low, and so stave off disappointment.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
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Jock of the Bushveld
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Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
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disappointment
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pessimism
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low expectations
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“Jock had many things to learn besides the lessons he got from me- the lessons of experience which nobody could teach him.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
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Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
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Jock
characters
lessons
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learning
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life experience
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life lessons
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