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title: "2 Marcus Clarke Quotes"
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# Marcus Clarke

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Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke FRSA was an English-born Australian novelist, journalist, poet, editor, librarian, and playwright. He is best known for his 1874 novel For the Term of His Natural Life, about the convict system in Australia, and widely regarded as a classic of Australian literature. It ha

##  Quotes by Marcus Clarke

> [“Take care what you say! I'll have no hard words. Wretch! If I am a wretch, who made me one? If I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-clarke/take-care-what-you-say-i-ll-have-no-hard-words-wretch-if-i-am-a/)

[Marcus Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-clarke/)

[Born free](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born-free/)

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> [“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-clarke/he-was-so-horribly-unhuman-that-one-shuddered-to-think-that-tender/)

[Marcus Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-clarke/)

[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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