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Quote by Robert Lynd
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. – Robert Lynd

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Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to the mouse, Come and have a piece of cheese, and then, when it accepts the invitation, to do it to death is a betrayal of the laws of hospitality. – Robert Lynd

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Hospitality
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Robert Lynd
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The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. – Robert Lynd

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Mustaches
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“Play it as it lies” is one of the fundamental dictates of golf. The other is “Wear it if it clashes.” – Henry Beard, Golfing, 1985

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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. – Pete Dye

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Golf

Golf is hockey at the halt. – Arthur Marshall, 1985

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Golf

A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. – Author unknown, variation of a famous non-golf quotation by Samuel Johnson “It i

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