Carolina QuotesDo you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.
Steven Pressfield Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Orontes (Handing over Xeones' corpse to Athenian civilians) p. 430
- work
- Gates of Fire (1998)
- year
- 1998
- locator
- p. 430
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