Isn't it pretty to think so? — Ernest Hemingway · Skopia

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Isn't it pretty to think so?

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 3, ch. 19.

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