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It is on record (in a booklet written by Guy Innes) that when Dennis decided to migrate from South Australia he telegraphed his father, "Send ten pounds. Going Broken Hill", to which appeal the old man promptly replied, "Sending nothing. Go to hell!"

— C. J. Dennis

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Professional gardeners are usually rather earthy uncommunicative men with a deliberate manner, a slight stoop and the dull-fish-like eye of the confirmed pessimist.

You might grow bored with being good;
And, furthermore, I think you would.

Love is a gamble, an' there ain't no certs.

For many years it has been my habit to divide gardeners into three classes. These are professional gardeners, professional amateur gardeners, and amateur amateur gardeners.

"Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends,
Fer 'atin' never paid no dividends."

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