A gun will give you the body, not the bird ✨ Quoted in Colin Jarman Th…

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A gun will give you the body, not the bird ✨ Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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A gun will give you the body, not the bird ✨ Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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