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Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson.

✵ 17. June 1867 – 2. September 1922
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Famous Henry Lawson Quotes

“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer”

Henry Lawson

“Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.”

Henry Lawson

The Ridiculous Family, from Triangles of Life and Other Stories (1913)

“The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage—anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.”

Henry Lawson

His Mistake, from Triangles of Life and Other Stories (1913)

“When the school children of Australia are told more truths about their own country, and fewer lies about the virtues of Royalty, the day will be near when we can place our own national flag in one of the proudest places among the ensigns of the world.”

Henry Lawson

Source: A Neglected History (1887)

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