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I felt, on such occasions, that I could have sat quietly and contentedly, and let the glass of life glide away to its last sand.

— Edward John Eyre Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Yea (1845)

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I think it will be conceded by every candid and right-thinking mind, that no one can justly take that which is not his own, without giving some equivalent in return, or deprive a people of their ordinary means of support, and not provide them with any other instead. Yet such is exactly the position we are in with regard to the inhabitants of Australia.

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Yea (1845)

In suggesting the only remedy which appears at all calculated to mitigate the evil complained of, it has studiously been kept in view that there are the interests of two classes to be provided for, those of the Settlers, and those of the Aborigines, it is thought that these interests cannot with advantage be separated, and it is hoped that it may be found practicable to blend them together.

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Yea (1845)

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