“It’s his sense of self-preservation.’ ‘The great Italian sense.’ ‘The greatest Italian sense.”
"Che ti dice la Patria?" in Men Without Women (1927)
“Fuckin' A… hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation.”
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