"The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future."

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Source : Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

Henry Lawson

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Europe Quotes

“I want to do everything with you”
“I was not allowed to date wrestlers, or anyone else in the company, across the board.”
“The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.”

Source : Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
“No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.”
“My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.”

Source : "Nobel winner Mo Yan speaks up for jailed 'subversive' Liu Xiaobo" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.
“As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.”
“I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.”
“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”

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