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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

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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
Corn
Farmers
Fool
Born
Flour
Make
Dough
Farmer
Farming

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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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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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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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