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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

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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
Marriage
Given
Two
Tempers
Time
Anarchy
Produces
Temper
Ordinary
Produce

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