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> [The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/the-australian-form-of-self-respect-however-rough-and-ready-heart-of/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

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## More by Hal Porter

> [The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/the-australian-form-of-self-respect-however-rough-and-ready-heart-of/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/now-i-can-smile-at-the-stock-quality-of-these-friends-these-uniforms/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/i-cannot-consider-fighting-in-competitive-manly-fun-any-more-than-i/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/the-heat-is-searing-and-superb-the-paddocks-surrounding-the-town-are/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/this-silent-cry-is-of-ecstasy-for-what-has-been-done-and-of-despair/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/the-unwritten-rules-of-behaviour-are-infinite-in-number-finely-shaded/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/while-still-sixteen-i-am-put-in-charge-of-a-class-of-forty-children/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/i-immediately-cotton-on-to-the-fact-that-intelligence-thus-lightly/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/how-ruthless-and-vile-and-hard-and-right-the-young-are/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/indeed-so-deep-is-my-pleasure-in-the-work-of-the-garden-that-if-there/)

[Hal Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-porter/)

> [Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-porter/next-suddenly-lightning-suddenly-while-i-am-still-a-child-a-branch-is/)

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