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Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

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'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

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Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Joseph Furphy

Joseph Furphy
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Born: September 26, 1843
Died: September 13, 1912 (aged 68)
Bio: Joseph Furphy is widely regarded as the "Father of the Australian novel". He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life, regarded as an Australian classic.
Known for:
  1. Such Is Life (1903)
  2. Rigby's Romance (1905)
  3. The Buln-Buln and the Brolga
  4. The Claret Murders: A Mark Rollins Adventure (1912)
  5. The Language of Excellence

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