# Norman Lindsay

- Quotes: 18
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## Books

- [The Magic Pudding](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-lindsay/the-magic-pudding.md) — 18 quotes

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> After that they had boiled jam roll and apple dumpling, as the fancy took them, for if you wanted a change of food from the Puddin', all you had to do was to whistle twice and turn the basin round.

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> Don't you know that nothin' gives a man greater remorse than havin' his face punched, his toes trod on, and eggs rubbed in his hair?

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> Well, if this ain't enough to dumbfound a codfish.

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> Take my advice, don't carry bags,
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> For bags are just as bad as swags;
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> They're never made to measure.
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> To see the world, your simple trick
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> Is but to take a walking-stick—
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> Assume an air of pleasure,
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> And tell the people near and far
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> You stroll about because you are
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> A Gentleman of Leisure.

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> [H]e was a very well-bred young fellow, polite in his manners, graceful in his attitudes, and able to converse on a great variety of subjects, having read all the best Australian poets.

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> One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.

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> Whiskers alone are bad enough
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> Attached to faces coarse and rough
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> But how much greater their offence is
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> When stuck on Uncles' countenances

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> O, who would be a puddin',
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> A puddin' in a pot,
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> A puddin' which is stood on
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> A fire which is hot?
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> O sad indeed the lot
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> Of puddin's in a pot.

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> "You ain't got any tobacco," he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. "I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non-smoking sort, all fur and feathers."

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> Let your conduct be noble, and never sing the National Anthem to people wearing bell-toppers.

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> "Whiskers in the Puddin' is worse than puddin' in the whiskers," shouted the Puddin', standing up in his basin.

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> But at this season puddin' thieves generally go south-east, owing to the price of onions.

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