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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

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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
Men
Ems
Politician
Clean
Saws
Went
Came
Politics
Never

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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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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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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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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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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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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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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'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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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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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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