F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 4
“I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”
— Jane Austen, book Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfield Park
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