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Here, a man is a man, and doesn't require a tailor.

The Head Station, 1885

Men, Patriotism, Author

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In Moreton Bay, the depredations of the Blacks were more or less regulated by the yield of the bunya forests. In the good bunya years, there were always more murders; and in the bunya-feast times the squatters went in fear, and the women stayed about the house and all the men looked well to their weapons. Then the kangaroos, iguanas and other beasts and reptiles of the bush are sacred, but the cattle are the white man's and may be speared and eaten; and the white man - if he be alone and has not his gun ready - may be speared also, and roasted and eaten, to still the craving for flesh food, which seizes men after long abstinence. Sometimes the white man was too vigilant, and the cattle were well guarded, and the craving became greater than could be endured; and then an unsuspecting stranger from some outside tribe would be led to a quiet spot and bidden to look at a snake in a water-hole, or at the red sky, or at something moving in the grass; and while he looked, a warrior behind would strike him a blow on the back of the neck with a waddy, and that night there would be horrible feasting. Or else some plump young lubras, doomed beforehand and guessing their doom, would be sacraficed to the need.

My Australian Girlhood - 1902

Patriotism, Author

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Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!

The Bond of Wedlock, 1887

Marriage, Patriotism, Author

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It has been my wish to depict in these pages certain phases of Australian life, in which the main interests and dominant passions of the personages concerned are identical with those which might present themselves upon an European stage, which, directly and indirectly, are influenced by striking natural surroundings.

Policy and Passion: A Novel of Australian Life - 1881 - Introductory Note.

Patriotism, Author

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Like many other young Australian, bred in the backblocks, he was a splendid, kindly honest creature, full of pluck and common-sense, but not remarkable for the finer qualities of intellect or emotion.

The Maid of the River, 1905

Patriotism, Author

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The great ranges between our two rivers, the Auburn and the Logan, wee covered with bunya forest. It is beautiful to ride through a bunya scrub, where a track has been cut, to see the huge yellowing cones hanging, each one larger than a man's head, and to watch the light falling in curious, pointed shafts from the dark pyramid tops of the tall trees, and the glinting in diamond sparks upon the glossy green leaves of the lower branches, beneath which all is gloom, and only creeping things move.

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There has been no-one to write the Blacks' epic: not many have said words in their defence; and this is but a poor little plea I lay down for my old friends.

Patriotism, Author

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