Carolina QuotesPresident Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
Ch. 1, p. 11
- work
- Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel]
- year
- 1954
- locator
- p. 11
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