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Hal Porter has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against…
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which…
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While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger…
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The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle…
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Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted…
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Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my…
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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…
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This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that…
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The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are…
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I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured…
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How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.
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God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But…
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Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
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I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors;…
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
— Thomas Jefferson
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When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.
— E. W. Howe
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A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,'
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A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.
— Unknown Author
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The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.
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The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show…
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