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1. "I'm afraid, Belle, that being a lady is more than proper clothes. It is an attitude. From your...experience, you may know more of business and politics than ladies are supposed to know. Gentlemen are pleased to think ladies are ornamental, and it is an ill-advised ornament who contradicts her gentleman." ~ Donald McCaig
2. "You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works." ~ Donald McCaig
3. "Rosemary, in his heart your brother is a lover. The shrewd businessman, the adventurer, the dandy are but costumes the lover wears." ~ Donald McCaig
4. "Patriotic'? Dear, dear me!" Scarlett covered her mouth in mock astonishment. "I didn't know that was 'patriotism.' I believe what you intended has ruder names, though no well-bred Georgia lady would admit to knowing them." ~ Donald McCaig
5. "Frederick Ward thought novels immoral and had been known to leave the room rather than subject himself to "bohemian" opinions." ~ Donald McCaig
6. "I have a writer's concentration: intense, but flickering." ~ Donald McCaig
7. "More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives." ~ Donald McCaig
8. "He'd sit and listen to Nana's Jesus stories all day, but when she turned to the Old Testament prophets, Louis Valentine's little face would darken. He said, "I hate it when God is mean!" ~ Donald McCaig
9. "He said, 'Life has hurt us again.'A worse hurt than those hurts we have already endured?'No,' he said, 'I suppose not." ~ Donald McCaig

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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return."
Author: Charles Alexander Eastman

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