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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
Economy
Splitting
Spun
Theologian
Redemption
Bent
Points
Ethics
Fine
Thrifty

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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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