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  • Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

    - Sir Neville Cardus
    Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

  • Mydear friend, clear your mind ofcant† You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but don't think foolishly.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark,15 May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

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