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The Allahakbarries, J.M. Barrie's all-star cricket team.
Joseph Thomson, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton and Jerome K. Jerome, all played for the Allahakbarries.
"The more accomplished a man was at writing, the worse he played."
Sir John Tenniel, born 28th February 1820
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party [1890] from The Nursery "Alice" by Lewis Carroll
"What a curse these social distinctions are. They ought to be abolished. I remember saying that to Karl Marx once, and he thought there might be an idea for a book in it."
P.G. Wodehouse, Quick Service
"In this very short space of time they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy: their church; their nobility; their law; their revenue; their army; their navy; their commerce; their arts; and their manufactures. They now are lying in a sort of trance..."
"Our country is not a thing of mere physical locality. It consists, in a great measure, in the antient order into which we are born... The place that determines our duty to our country is a social, civil relation."
Edmund Burke
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help: ...
Philip Larkin