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Sky Masterson! There is the highest player of them all! [...] Higher than anybody. Why do you think they call him Sky? That's how high he bets. I once saw him bet five thousand dollars on a cockroach.
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So why don't I bet him? Why don't I bet him a thousand on something? [...] I ain't scared. I am perfectly willing to take the risk, providing I can figure out a bet on which there is no chance of losing.
Swerling, Jo, and Burrows, Abe. Guys and Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway, Music Theater International, 1951, pp 14-15.
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