“I have here in my pocket - and thank heaven you can't see them...” – Elmer Gantry, Elmer Gantry ... Movie Quotes Database

I have here in my pocket - and thank heaven you can't see them - lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard... a foreigner.

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