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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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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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Riot
Sheep
Revolution
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