GEORGIA in Classic Quotes

1  I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would have ruined the Christmas parties, too.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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2  Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton was still new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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3  Already the plowing was nearly finished, and the bloody glory of the sunset colored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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4  Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin--that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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5  The more sedate and older sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack of the niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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6  They had just been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; and their older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them, because they refused to remain at an institution where the twins were not welcome.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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