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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
Politician
Clean
Saws
Went
Came
Politics
Never
Men
Ems

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