Observation Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They lived on the even tenor found advisable in the experience of old families of the Western world, brought up rather than brought out. Dick thought, for example, that nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Download Open image

““They lived on the even tenor found advisable in the experience of old families of the Western world, brought up rather than brought out. Dick thought, for example, that nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.””

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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