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“If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Lines Late Summer South Heat September Masons

Author:Scott Porter

“Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?”

Knows Writing Mean South Boundaries Assurance Phoenix Richmond

Book:My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.”

“To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.”

Mean Might Able Cases Rich Internet Wine South Selling Motivated Farms Goats Carolina Own Business Your Best Friend Being Rich South Carolina

Book:Your Money: The Missing Manual

Source: Your Money: The Missing Manual

“The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Sumner