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Sir Neville Cardus (2 April1889 – 28 February1975) was a celebrated British journalist.

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He was a music and cricket writer for the Manchester Guardian.

Quotes

On cricket

• For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.

• Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

• Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them.

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  A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

On music

• If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.
  • Manchester Guardian (1939)

• Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blesse Hitler’s Accompanist – Commentary Magazine DEQ