"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world."

Home, News, Newspapers, Rest

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"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world."

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Stephen King, American Author

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L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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Kenneth Eade, American Author

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

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