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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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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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