Carolina QuotesThey learn all our bad habits. We destroy every bit of their old logical living because it conflicts with our law, and replace it with bleeding nothing. So now you have, excuse me, please, whores when once there was no such thing as prostitution, and robbers and spivs and sly loafers, because they've become detribalized without becoming decently citified.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Bk. 2, sec. 6 (p. 201)
- work
- Something of Value (1955)
- year
- 1955
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- p. 201
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