Carolina QuotesChildren — that would be the most desperate experiment of all. The most desperate, and perhaps the only one having any chance of being successful.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Ch. 21 (Mrs. Viveash)
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- Antic Hay (1923)
- year
- 1923
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