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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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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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