First person Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

““Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle””

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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