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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Life
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Financial
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Irony
Success
Chief
Often
Chiefs
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Tragic
Reason
Passed

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