The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.

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• William Butler Yeats:

  Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.