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One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of tw ...
The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inne ...
What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and wh ...
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
Miss Western: Tell me, child, what objections can you have to the young gentleman?
Sophie: A very solid objection, in my opin
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Miss Western: Well, unless I am deceived, my niece is desperately in love.
Squire Western: In love! In love! Without my conse
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I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have c ...
It's a queer sensation, this secret belief that one stands on the brink of the world's greatest catastrophe. For it means the fall ...
The more I live here in western Europe, the more I am impressed by the sense of decay;Mnot the graceful and dignified decay of an ...
Western hospitality prevails; it is reminiscent of the kind displayed earlier here by a host who said to an unexpected guest, "Str ...
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