Carolina QuotesThe people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
Carl Sandburg Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"The People, Yes" (1936)
- year
- 1936
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“The people will live on. The learning and blundering people …” Carl Sandburg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-F47FCCCE4B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/f47fccce4b
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