British Commonwealth Games

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    “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “As long as lightly all their livelong sessions,
    Like a yardful of schoolboys out at recess
    Before their plays and games were organized,
    They yelling mix tag, hide-and-seek, hopscotch,
    And leapfrog in each other’s way all’s well.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)