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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.

Henry Lawson

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Henry Lawson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 17
Died: 1922
Died: September 2
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Grenfell
New South Wales
Australia
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson
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