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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite…
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My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical…
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Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to…
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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…
— Hal Porter
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One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in…
— Henry Edward Manning
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I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually…
— Joseph Addison
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A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
— Lin Yutang
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