Carolina QuotesDo you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 2.
- work
- Alvin Journeyman (1995)
- year
- 1995
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“Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your …” Orson Scott Card. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-3735AFEFEB. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/3735afefeb
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