Alistair Cooke Quotes

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

Alistair Cooke

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• Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

  

  Alistair Cooke
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