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Percy Fitzpatrick Quotes
10 of the best book quotes from Percy Fitzpatrick
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″‘Distant hills are always green,’ and the best gold further on.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
book
Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
character
gold
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distant
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hills
ᐧ
grass is always greener
concepts
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“How the little things that mark a new departure stamp themselves indelibly on the memory!”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
book
Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
character
memories
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making memories
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the little things
concepts
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“Common sense is not cowardice.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
book
Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
character
common sense
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cowardice
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not being
concepts
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“They still laughed at his ridiculous dignity; and they loved to tease him to see him stiffen with rage and hear his choky little growls; but they liked his independence and admired his tremendous pluck.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
book
Jock
character
dignity
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independence
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to tease
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growling
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to laugh
concepts
05
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“Of the people who live lonely lives, on the veld or elsewhere, few do so of their own free choice.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
book
Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
character
lonely
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no choices
concepts
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“So they respected his name when he got one. And his name was ‘Jock’.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
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Jock
character
respect
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names
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dogs
concepts
07
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″...fortune holds some gifts in store for those who try;”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
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Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
character
gifts
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trying
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good fortune
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fortunes
concepts
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“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
authors
Jock of the Bushveld
book
Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
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the Boy (Jock of the Bushveld)
characters
holding hands
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child
ᐧ
inner child
concepts
09
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“It is well to pitch one’s expectations low, and so stave off disappointment.”
Percy Fitzpatrick
author
Jock of the Bushveld
book
Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
character
disappointment
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pessimism
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low expectations
concepts
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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
book
Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
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Jock
characters
lessons
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learning
ᐧ
life experience
ᐧ
life lessons
concepts
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Jock
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pessimism
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