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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

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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
Havens
Haven
Fire
Opinion
Words
Much
Dry
Tongue

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