As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. - Irvin S. Cobb

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Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

Irvin S. Cobb

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

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To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

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Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

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If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

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Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

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Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

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