Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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