Carolina QuotesI reckon the years between forty and sixty are the best a man's apt to put in. He can do dang near anything as good as he could when he was a youngster, and what he can't jump over he's smart enough to walk around.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 20 (p. 212)
- work
- The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- p. 212
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“I reckon the years between forty and sixty are the best a ma…” Robert Ruark. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-B7019D033E. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/b7019d033e
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