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It takes two persons to make a Proper Friendship. The one has to be befriended, the other to be friendly. I'd rather be the friendly man by a darned sight. He gets all the fat off the mutual leg of mutton, and not unfrequently scrapes the bone.

— 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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