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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
Decay
Surrender
Within
Nations
Often
Outward
Assault

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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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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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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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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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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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