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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

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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
Conscience
Sacrifice
Happiness
Good
People
Neighbors
Represents
Neighbor

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