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Chelmsford is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Chelmsford had a population of 100 people.

Chelmsford is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Chelmsford had a population of 100 people.

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“Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.”
— First lines of Dicken's first published work, originally titled "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"
“I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on.”
— Our Parish, Ch. 5 : The Broker’s Man
“That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.”
— Ch. 40
“"Time was," he said, "when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light."”
— Ch. 46
“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
— Bk. II, Ch. 28
“'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'”
— Bk. III, Ch. 9

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