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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

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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
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Age
Happy

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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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... 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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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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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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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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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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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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