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Christmas, only distinguished from the fifty-two slow Sundays of the year by plum-pudding, roast turkey, and a few bottles of home-made beer...

My Brilliant Career

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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, self-published in 1901.

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Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! Nothing to live for in life--no hope beyond the grave.

But in all the wide world there was not a soul to hold out a hand to me, and I said bitterly, "There is no good in the world." In softer moods I said, "Ah, the tangle of it! Those who have the heart to help have not the power, and those who have the power have not the heart."

It appears that we all labour under delusions.

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