Stoke Mandeville Games

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    We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
    —Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

    Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)