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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

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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
Knitting
Trouble
Women
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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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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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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