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When the Rudyards cease from Kipling
And the Haggards ride no more.

— James Kenneth Stephen

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More quotes by James Kenneth Stephen

To see Good Tennis! What divine joy
Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ?
Let other people play at other things;
The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

Lapsus Calami (1891)

In short, if your body or mind
Or your soul or your purse come to grief,
You need only get drunk, and you'll find
Complete and immediate relief.

Lapsus Calami (1891)

Republic of the West,
Enlightened, free, sublime,
Unquestionably best
Production of our time.

Lapsus Calami (1891)

I do not want to see that girl again:
I did not like her: and I should not mind
If she were done away with, killed, or ploughed.
She did not seem to serve a useful end:
And certainly she was not beautiful.

Lapsus Calami (1891)

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