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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

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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
Fine
Thrifty
Economy
Splitting
Spun
Theologian
Redemption
Bent
Points
Ethics

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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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