cant quotes

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

-Cardus, Sir Neville
Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

Mydear friend, clear your mind ofcant† You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but don't think foolishly.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,15 May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

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