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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

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Arthur Ashe
Age: 49 †
Born: 1943
Born: July 10
Died: 1993
Died: February 6
Military Officer
Tennis Player
Richmond
Virginia
Arthur Robert Ashe
Jr.
Tennis
Discovered
Later
Sports
Work
Good

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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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