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— Josh Billings"The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it."
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Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.
— Stephen Fry
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