Quotation by Olive Schreiner

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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), South African writer, feminist. The Story of an African Farm, pt. 1, ch. 13 (1883).

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