Carolina QuotesThen brim the bowl with atrabilious liquor! We'll pledge our Empire vast across the flood: For Blood, as all men know, than Water's thicker, But Water's wider, thank the Lord, than Blood.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Ninth Philosopher's Song"
- work
- Leda (1920)
- year
- 1920
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