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Dignity is an anachronism.

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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
Anachronism
Dignity

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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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He who demands little gets it.
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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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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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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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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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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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