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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

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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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Engaging
Birds
Forms
Bird

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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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He who demands little gets it.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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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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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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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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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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