Two of the best book quotes from Narrator (The Magic Pudding)
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“You can’t go about the world being nothing, but if are a traveller you have to carry a bag, while if you are a swagman, you have to carry a swag, and the question is: Which is the heavier?”
“This was a welcome suggestion, for, as all travellers know, if you don’t sit by a camp fire in the evening, you have to sit by nothing in the dark...”