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Quote by Kenneth Slessor
It’s not for lack of trying.
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The speaker says that failure or absence is not due to a lack of effort. They have tried, even if trying did not produce the hoped-for result. The wording is brief and somewhat open-ended, so the exact situation is left unstated.
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- University of New England doctoral thesis citing Geoffrey Dutton’s Kenneth Slessor: A Biography
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