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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

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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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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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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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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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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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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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