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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

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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
Broken
Dead
Earth
Heart
Would
Grief
Hearts
Kill
Moon

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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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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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