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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.
Margaret Mitchell
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Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
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She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
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what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
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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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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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