“They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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