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- Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination.…
- He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
- It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of…
- Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This…
- If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up…
- It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.
- To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without…
- As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat…
- Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
- In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery.…
- ...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it…
- I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the…
- I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly…
- You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made…
- She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him…
- They pointed out that the friendship between the two artistes had always been a by-word or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it…
- I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like…
- It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your…
- I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the…
- It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.
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