“Better a citizen in hell than a slave in New Jersey.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 9 (p. 162)
“Hell was not perfect, but it was paradise compared with New Jersey.”
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Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 174)
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