Carolina QuotesSingle-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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- Do What You Will (1928)
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- 1928
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