Professional gardeners are usually rather earthy uncommunic… - C. J. Dennis

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Professional gardeners are usually rather earthy uncommunicative men with a deliberate manner, a slight stoop and the dull-fish-like eye of the confirmed pessimist.

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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Alternative Names: Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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It is on record (in a booklet written by Guy Innes) that when Dennis decided to migrate from South Australia he telegraphed his father, "Send ten pounds. Going ", to which appeal the old man promptly replied, "Sending nothing. Go to hell!"

Livin' an' lovin'; learnin' day be day; Pausin' a minute in the barmy strife
To find that 'elpin' others on the way Is gold coined fer your profit—sich is life.

Get a —— move on, Have some —— sense.
Learn the —— art of Self de- —— -fence!

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