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Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#cricket #days #great #plenty #spare

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#clean #come #deal #failure #final

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#behold #cat #fish #forgotten #get

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #men #minded #opinions #others

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. ↗

— Frank Woolley

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It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#attend #best #cricket #day #exciting

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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