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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Ellen Glasgow

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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
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Late
Alter
Make
Difference
Inferiors
Events
Watched
Differences
Nearly
Came
Thirty
Lasts
Recognition
Waited
Last
Rewards
Exalted
Living
Worked
Inferior

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