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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

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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
World
Dent
Destroy
Surface
Alone
Passion
Much
Make
Thinking

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