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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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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
May
Always
Distraction
Misery
Drinking
Danger
Drink
Pleasure

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