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September 19, 2025

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), African politician, prime minister of Zimbabwe, in Sunday Times, 26 February 1984, Jay p.267

Do you know why God gave cricket to the English? To teach them the meaning of eternity—the time that it takes for a typical cricket match.

Mr. Mugabe got over that plan pretty quickly.

November 7, 2025

9 months ago

Europeans often ask and Americans do not often explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency]

November 1, 2025

9 months ago

In the life of any government, however safe its majority, there comes a moment when the social movements

August 30, 2025

11 months ago

Since a rational creature cannot be supposed, when free, to put himself in subjection to another for his own harm

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