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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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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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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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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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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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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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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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He who demands little gets it.
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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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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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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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