George Moore
George Moore
George Fletcher Moorewas a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite". He conducted a number of exploring expeditions; was responsible for one of the earliest published records of the language of the Australian Aborigines of the Perth area; and was the author of Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia...
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth10 December 1798
consoling great troubles
There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.
pool shooting
When I was shooting pool that night, he stumbled into the pool table,
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Obviously, we're going to be higher by Labor Day. If we add another 20 cents, that takes us to about $2.75.
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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do
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It hurts their cause when people say that kind of thing,
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God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him
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He was standing like he was going to smash a bug,
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We do want to see international and American investment in Zaire, but right now, investment is going to be affected by the fact that there is a civil war.
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To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society
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Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following every light.
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The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
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I'm glad to see that we can help, but I want them to help themselves,
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A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us