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Take care what you say! I'll have no hard words. Wretch! If I am a wretch, who made me one? If I hate you and myself and the world, who made me hate it? I was born free—as free as you are. Why should I be sent to herd with beasts, and condemned to this slavery, worse than death?

— Marcus Clarke

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To describe a tempest of the elements is not easy, but to describe a tempest of the soul is impossible.

A Man of Business is one who becomes possessed of other people's money without bringing himself under the power of the law.

Men change their dispositions as they change their climate.

As Mr Burnett said to me long ago, 'Q———, you will never be one of us. You have ruined your constitution by early temperance.'

It is no use borrowing if you mean to pay. There have been more men ruined by 'temporary accommodation' than anything else.

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