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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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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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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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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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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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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy 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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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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