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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
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Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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