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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
Politics
Never
Men
Ems
Politician
Clean
Saws
Went
Came

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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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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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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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