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A great composition to me is ... an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

— Neville Cardus

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It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.

For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.

Cricket (1930)

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

Manchester Guardian (1939)

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

Good Days (1934)

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

Good Days (1934)

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

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