Irene L. Luce

Writer named in a newspaper report

Luce is named in the 1920 newspaper evidence discussed by Quote Investigator. The attribution remains provisional rather than proof that she coined the saying.

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“Live Fast, Die Young, and Leave a Beautiful Corpse”

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