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/ page 965 of 1205 /The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train.
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And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
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It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
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It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
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Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
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A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
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He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
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