Alistair Cooke Quotes

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Alistair Cooke

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• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Sports
  • Friendship
  • Dies