If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him …

Jim Butcher
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If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. ✨ Jim Butcher (2009). Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files, p.200, Penguin
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