"Youth troubles over eternity; age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day."
— Mary Gilmore

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Old Days, Old Ways: A Book of Recollections (1934); extract reprinted in The Penguin Book of Australian Autobiography (1987), pp. 35–6