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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

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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
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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