“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Source: The Great Gatsby
“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
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