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Men Quotes by Alistair Cooke
- The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a…
- For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr…
- When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies…
- Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
- Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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