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Henry Lawson, poète et écrivain australien est souvent considéré comme le plus grand auteur de textes courts de l'histoire de l'Australie. Comme son contemporain Banjo Paterson, il était correspondant du magazine The Bulletin, et compte parmi les écrivains de fiction australiens les plus connus de la période coloniale. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. juin 1867 – 2. septembre 1922
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Henry Lawson: Citations en anglais

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

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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.”

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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.”

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Source: A Neglected History (1887)