Carolina QuotesShe said to Constance, parodying a line of poetry that attracted her, "In the United States, there one feels free." But she spoiled it by continuing, "Except from the Americans — but every pearl has its oyster."
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
Ch. 4, p. 181
- work
- Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel]
- year
- 1954
- locator
- p. 181
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