Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends, Fer 'atin' n… - C. J. Dennis

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Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends,
Fer 'atin' never paid no dividends.

C. J. Dennis

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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the ".

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Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends, Fer 'atin' never paid no dividends. - C. J. Dennis

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