| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40052 |
| QUOTATION: | What most people dont seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Margaret Mitchell (19001949), U.S. novelist. Rhett Butler, in Gone With the Wind, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 9 (1936). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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