Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. — Margaret Mitchell · Skopia

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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind · 1936

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 53.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 5, ch. 53.

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