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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

George Jean Nathan

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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
Critic
Film Critic
Journalist
Writer
Fort Wayne
Indiana
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Something
Bitterest
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