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It is difficult for young people to live things down. we will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It Is Difficult For Young People To

F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is difficult for young people to live things down. we will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.
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