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
both broke fight seen shoulders
Earl lunged at them and had them both by the shoulders and the shirts, ... That's when the fight broke out. All I seen was Eli and Earl going at it.
glad help
I'm glad to see that we can help, but I want them to help themselves,
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No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to nobody
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It's detrimental from the standpoint of wood supply inventory,
circle dogma drawn draws hardly mind round
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
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,
change daily destroy habits reality slight sufficient
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
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A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine
acting art lowest therefore
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
heard
Probably everything you've heard is true, ... but we've got to put that into context.
add higher labor takes
Obviously, we're going to be higher by Labor Day. If we add another 20 cents, that takes us to about $2.75.
good growing rate routine
It's going to take years before we can get into a good routine of growing timber at the rate we are harvesting timber,
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It's about as drastic as you can imagine, ... It's a real blow to the entire industry and it will probably be 20, 25 years before we get back to a sense of normalcy.