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Whoever called snooker

Whoever called snooker “chess with balls” was rude, but right. – Clive James

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if its in Hamburger Technology. – Clive James

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Games lubricate the body and the mind. – Benjamin Franklin

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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. – Henry Louis Mencken

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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. – Indian Proverb

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As a game of mingled skill and chance, Billiards stands at the head of what may be called Indoor Athletics. Requiring far less mental exertion than Chess… it provides amusement for the mind, it also affords exercise for the body. – Captain Crawley (George Frederick Pardon, 1824–1884), The Billiard Book, 1

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