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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

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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
Life
May
Inaccessible
Human
Safely
Humans
Protected
Country
Barriers
Every
Native
Mind
Sensitive
Think
Exist
Thinking
Dream

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