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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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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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