Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

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.