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  • They were careless people,Tom and Daisythey smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

    - F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
      The Great Gatsby, ch.9.

  •    The more careless, the more modish.

    -Jonathan Swift
      Polite Conversation, dialogue1.

  • So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.

    -Tennyson
      Of Nature. In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 55, l.7^8.

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