Carolina QuotesAt Athens and Athens alone, a new stamp of person was being born, neither baron nor yeoman, but a man of the city. A citizen.
Steven Pressfield Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Father p. 87
- work
- Last of the Amazons (2002)
- year
- 2002
- locator
- p. 87
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