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“The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.’ But I’d add Goethe’s view, that the ‘best thing which we derive from history is the enthusiasm that it raises in us’.”
― The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats
― The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats
“A woman was sitting just outside the door knitting something at great speed in violently orange, synthetic wool. Beside her grazed a sheep in need of a haircut.”
― The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats
― The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats
“But Solomon frowned when he saw the Chinese workers in their traditional pointed hats. ‘Since they arrived in this area many colobus monkeys have been trapped. The Chinese are buying the skins,’ he told us furiously, then with his voice cracking, ‘and there was even an elephant killed, the tusks were gone, and it is the first time I see an elephant killed in this area.’ Somebody else in the car pointed out that the Chinese had required 14,000 work permits, when as many unemployed Kenyans could have done the work.”
― The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats
― The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats
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