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Pritchard senior died of some unpronounceable scientific term signifying internal haemorrhage of irascibility and malevolence.

— Joseph Furphy

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Our virgin continent! how long has she tarried her bridal day!

Comedy is tragedy, plucked unripe.

Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity.

I have just finished writing a full-sized novel; title, Such is Life; scenery, Riverina and northern Vic.; temper, democratic; bias, offensively Australian.

Farce is the grimmest of all tragedy; it is the blind jollity of an Irish wake, with the silent guest none the less present because unassertive.

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