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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.


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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.



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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.



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Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.



A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.



Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.



Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.



Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.



Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.



This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.





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