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One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.

— Norman Lindsay The Magic Pudding (1918)

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If anyone assumes that going one's own way is the easy way, they are very much in error. There's no harder way to go.

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