Carolina Quotes...habits are happiness of a sort...
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“An Unread Book”, p. 39
- work
- The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
- year
- 1969
- locator
- p. 39
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“...habits are happiness of a sort...” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-4A6D822F39. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/4a6d822f39
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