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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

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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
Women
Men
Love
Senses
Imagination

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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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