A Quote by H. L. Mencken
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
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If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
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