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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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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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... 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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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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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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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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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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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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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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