Carolina QuotesAmour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Ch. 15 (Mr. Scogan)
- work
- Crome Yellow (1921)
- year
- 1921
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