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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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