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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

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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
Men
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Appearance
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Judging
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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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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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