Quote by Alistair Cooke
Washington - Alistair Cooke

Washington – Alistair Cooke

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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. – Alistair Cooke

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Golf
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Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. – Alistair Cooke

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Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. – Angela Carter

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Lucy: Beethovens birthday is December 16th Shermy! Have you decided what youre going to get me?
Shermy: Yes! Im not going to get you anything!
Lucy: What kind of a holiday is it where you dont give girls presents? – Charles Monroe Schulz

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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. – Peter Abelard

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Holidays

The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday. – Anon.

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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. – Author Unknown

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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. – Hal Borland

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