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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Margaret Mitchell
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Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
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The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.
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He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
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Hardships make or break people.
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You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.
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Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
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Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
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I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
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[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
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The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
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The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.
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I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
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There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.
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But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
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It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
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And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.
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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
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Crackers are short on sparkle.
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