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The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
Tags: lips, hands, humanity, fight

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
Tags: value, training, men, discipline
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
Tags: first, personal, exercise, play
Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
Tags: voting, fighting, law, women
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