Carolina QuotesA youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and the chiseled squint of the vetern.
Steven Pressfield Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Damon p. 91
- work
- Last of the Amazons (2002)
- year
- 2002
- locator
- p. 91
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