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Percy sobbed into her shoulder. "What have I done, Sassie?" "You be young, that's what you and Miss Mary both done. Love aint got no business happenin to the young. Only the old be wise enough to treat it right. Id offer you a bottle of somethin', but they aint a drop of nothin in the house."

"The head of each family had known that to borrow from the other was to loose power. Worse, to borrow meant to be beholden, and then that would diminish, if not destroy, the friendship. To be in debt of a friend was to lose equality with him. Even if the debt was repaid, the borrower would always owe the lender. it was a reality of human nature."

"Pride?" Lucy chortled. "Horsefeathers! Pride is nothing but a hobble that confines you to a small space with no chance of ever seeing what's over the mountain. You'd better take a long look at pride sweetie. It could be your undoing."

God must have a Machiavellian turn of mind 2 devise the cruelties inheret with growing old. @ the very least the elderly ought to b allowed an accurate perception of time..2 c the yrs as the stretch they really were, not 2 b made 2 feel they had all gone by n a flash & the beginning was no more than a short distance back. @ the end, the old and dying ought to b spared the feeling that life had just begun.

"God must have a Machiavellian turn of mind to devise the cruelties inherent with growing old. At the very least, the elderly ought to be allowed an accurate perception of time....