Malton and Norton Golf Club - 27 hole course 2 km northeast of York. Contains a brief summary and a few reviews.
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I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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