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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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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
Character
Necks
Nineteen
Commit
Washed
Murder
Entered
English
Mysteries
Soon
Casual
Infallibly
Mystery
Neck
Mayhem
Reader
Villain
Thirties
Language
Recently
Detect

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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 revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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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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