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These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code. This code was simple. Reverence for the Confederacy, honor to the veterans, loyalty to old forms, pride in poverty, open hands to friends and undying hatred to Yankees.

— Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind (1936)

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Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

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I was a white man and turning yellow when—she came.

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