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Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

Max Lerner

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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
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Forget
Flags
Less
Teeth
Fatuous
Means
Relation
Extract
Given
Gratitude
Waving
Nothing
Friendship
Tooth
Mean
Americans
Forgetting
Would
Danger
Flag
Unless
Freely

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