“ It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ”
- Bruce McCall- Copy
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“ If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. ”
- Marquise De SeVigne- Copy
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“ Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ”
- Raoul Vaneigem- Copy
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“ The idle mind will sometimes fall into contemplations that serve for nothing but to ruin the health, destroy good humour, hasten old age and wrinkles, and bring on an habitual melancholy. 'Tis a maxim with me to be young as long as one can: there is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth; those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity, which make all the happiness of life… ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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