"Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your……" — Stephen Potter
"Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him."
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11 Quotes by Stephen Potter
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Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also…
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Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond…
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Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.
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If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or…
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In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond 'no comment' with…
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A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.
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