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A character in This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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All in all Beatrice O’Hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again; a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about; a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.
Narration · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book One, Chapter 1
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.
Narration · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book One, Chapter 1

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