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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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