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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

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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
Outward
Assault
Decay
Surrender
Within
Nations
Often

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