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Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.
Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.
Approximate author period: c. 1918 AD · modern
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- Approximate author period: c. 1918 AD · modern
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