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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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Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and Im acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesnt consist of a high school drama class. – Phil Lesh

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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. – Author Unknown

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. – Honore de Balzac

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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply. – Zane Grey

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