"Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good……" — George Will
"Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it."
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175 Quotes by George Will
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