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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
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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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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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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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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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