I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman emperors
almost entirely to the fact that,
never having played golf,
they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip-shot.
If Cleopatra had been outed in the First Round of the Ladies Singles,
we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.
In the days of King Arthur nobody thought the worse of a young knight if he suspended all his social and business engagements in favour of a search for the Holy Grail. In the Middle Ages a man could devote his whole life to the Crusades, and the public fawned upon him. Why, then blame the man of today for a zealous attention to the modern equivalent, the Quest of Scratch!
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