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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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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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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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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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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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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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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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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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