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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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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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Twice
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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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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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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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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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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