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When I walked into the Garden, a Berber from Morocco was in the ring, whacking away ineffectually at a long, stringy Negro from Cuba; it seemed unbelievable that two men could have come so far to fight so little.
- A.J. Liebling, The Sweet Science, p.110 in The Sweet Science & Other Writings
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