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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

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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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Nature

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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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