Carolina QuotesA signpost doesn't in and of itself represent the way to the village. We have to learn how to take it.
Simon Blackburn Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter Two, Mind, p. 78
- work
- Think (1999)
- year
- 1999
- locator
- p. 78
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