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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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Expect
Men
Appearances
Appearance

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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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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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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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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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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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