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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

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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
Selfishness
Stupidity
Stronger
Force

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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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