“I will fight like a lion to retain my title.”
Rafael Márquez (boxer) (1975) Mexican boxer
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“Nannie Bruce, a tall, gangling light-heavyweight with a suggestion in her appearance of a private in the Grenadiers dressed up to play the title role in Charley’s Aunt, was one of those doggedly faithful retainers who adhere to almost all old families like barnacles to the hulls of ships…She was as much a fixture as the stone lions or the funny smell in the attic.”
— P.G. Wodehouse, book Cocktail Time
Cocktail Time (1958)
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