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Michael Leunig Quotes: When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
         

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.


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When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
         



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