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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated

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 throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. – Henry Lawson

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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 from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on Englands account. – Henry Lawson

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Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, Im at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know. – Henry Lawson

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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness. – Benjamin Franklin

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My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families. – AnnaLynne McCord

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I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if youre going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life. – Blake Shelton

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Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. – Marilyn Monroe

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