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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.

Ellen Glasgow

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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
Farmers
Fool
Born
Make
Flour
Dough
Farmer
Farming
Corn

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