Carolina Quotes"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whisky to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got."
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 6 (p. 66)
- work
- The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- p. 66
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“"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what…” Robert Ruark. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-3D3B644746. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/3d3b644746
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