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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

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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
Indispensable
Ingredients
Decay
Irony
Critical
Safest
Vision
Ingredient
Antidote
Sentimental

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