Carolina QuotesI think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 14.
- work
- Alvin Journeyman (1995)
- year
- 1995
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“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ign…” Orson Scott Card. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D262BABB89. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d262babb89
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