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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

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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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Mediocrity
Inevitable
Ahead
Rate
Behinds
Depresses
Behind
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