“In those days, they had time for everything: Time for sleigh rides...” – Narrator, The Magnificent Ambersons ... Movie Quotes Database

In those days, they had time for everything: Time for sleigh rides, and balls, and assemblies, and cotillions, and open house on New Years, and all-day picnics in the woods, and even that prettiest of all vanished customs: the serenade.

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