Carolina QuotesAmericanism: Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.
Robert Quillen Connected to the Carolinas
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Paragraphs by Robert Quillen, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 1928. (via Newspapers.com)
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- 1928
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