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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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No Amount Of Fire Or Freshness Can

F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
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