“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”

— Karen Blixen, book Out of Africa

As quoted in obituaries (7 September 1962)
Variant: God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Source: Out of Africa

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