“Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.”

— Jimmy Durante

As quoted in Low Man On A Totem Pole (1941) by Harry Allen Smith, p. 185
Variant: Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?

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