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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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Hardy
Happiness

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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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