"Jules Renald has said, "It is not how old you are but how you are old." The way I was old today on my eightieth birthday is that I have just entered the infancy of middle age."
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Quoted in Bill Wannan, Great Aussie Quotes (Viking O'Neil, 1987) [1982], p. 10
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Isaac Isaacs
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, GCB, GCMG, PC, KC (6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge who served as the ninth , in office from 1931 to 1936. He had previously served on the from 1906 to 1931, including as Chief Justice from 1930.
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