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"Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?'Ah specs it's kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes' knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An' givin' dem whut dey thinksdey wants saves a pile of mizry an' bein' a ole maid. An' dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird's tastes an' no sense atall. It doan make a gempmum feel lak mahyin' a lady ef he suspicions she got mo' sense dan he has."
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"Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.'Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness."

"So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.'I hope not. It's a girl."

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"What's broken is broken-and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over."
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