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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
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Judge
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Men

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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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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.
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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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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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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