Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"
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Nature, when planning this sterling fellow, shoved in a lot more lower jaw than was absolutely necessary and made the eyes a bit too keen and piercing for one who was neither an Empire builder nor a traffic policeman.
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You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.
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