Carolina Quotes
You have to make a decent living to provide for yourself and your family, but to be obsessed with it, to have greed as the consummate aim in life is to have no life at all.
William Friday Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Cindy Cheatham, December 18, 1990; Southern Oral History Program, Interview L-0049, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, Interview L-0049
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- 1990
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