Carolina QuotesWhy have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can.
Steven Pressfield Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Leonides p. 427
- work
- Gates of Fire (1998)
- year
- 1998
- locator
- p. 427
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