Australians are the biggest gamblers on the planet – one of the more arresting statistics I saw was that the country has less than 1 per cent of the world’s population but more than 20 per cent of its slot machines

... women hold their councils of war in kitchens: the knives are there, and the cups of coffee, and the towels to dry the tears.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stenciled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?

Written By Edith Wharton

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