Henry Lawson Quotes

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• In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.
• 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…
• It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
• 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…
• I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.
• 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…
• 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…
• Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort…
• Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
• Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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