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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
Human
Humans
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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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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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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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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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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