Carolina QuotesBohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry Carolinian
Source
"The Country of Elusion"
- work
- The Trimmed Lamp (1907)
- year
- 1907
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“Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you…” O. Henry. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-31FFDE1E1E. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/31ffde1e1e
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