Carolina QuotesGossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
On Being Human, The Atlantic Monthly, (September, 1897)
- work
- 1920s and later
- year
- 1897
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“Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.” Woodrow Wilson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-9E00A54569. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/9e00a54569
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