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It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

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Simon Schama

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

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Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love. . . You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that

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