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1864–1941 Australia
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (February 17, 1864 – April 5, 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia's colonial period.
Australia Journalists Poets Short story writers Also known as: Andrew Paterson, Paterson, Andrew
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All men are born free and equal; and each man is entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of horse racing.
The noblest study of mankind is man, but the most fascinating study of womankind is another woman's wardrobe.
An Outback Marriage (1900)
With Mr Smythers to think was to act. He was not a man who believed in allowing grass to grow under his feet. His motto was "Up and be doing—somebody."
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
I saw bank booms ... land booms, silver booms, Northern Territory booms, and they all had one thing in common—they always burst.
A man without one redeeming vice.
The truth is that he is a dangerous monomaniac, and his one idea is to ruin the man who owns him. With this object in view he will display a talent for getting into trouble and a genius for dying that are almost incredible.
He lived in comfort, not to say luxury. He had champagne for breakfast every morning, and his wife always slept with a pair of diamond ear-rings worth a small fortune in her ears. It is things like these that show true gentility.
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