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Happiness is a hardy annual.

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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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Happiness

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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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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.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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