George Moore
George Moore
George Fletcher Moorewas a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite". He conducted a number of exploring expeditions; was responsible for one of the earliest published records of the language of the Australian Aborigines of the Perth area; and was the author of Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia...
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth10 December 1798
poor poverty-and-the-poor
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
everybody sets
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do
following genius stray stupidity talent wanders
Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following every light.
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It's detrimental from the standpoint of wood supply inventory,
consoling great troubles
There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.
pool shooting
When I was shooting pool that night, he stumbled into the pool table,