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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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