Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. . . I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.