“The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.”
Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels
Source: Lord of Scoundrels
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
Some sources claim it was said first by Walcott http://coxscorner.tripod.com/walcott.html, but the English version of this ancient proverb is generally attributed to Bob Fitzsimmons, as documented in the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs ( 6th edition, 2015, p. 26 https://books.google.com/books?id=LMGPCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26). <br class="br">Disputed
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