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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free of rust in the movable parts of the mind.

— Gene Fowler Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961)

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Source: Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961), p. 99
Work: Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s, 1961
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