Carolina QuotesMy own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 3.
- work
- Alvin Journeyman (1995)
- year
- 1995
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