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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

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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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Outward
Inward
Necessity
Goodness
Grace

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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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