I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
More Quotes from Ellen Glasgow:
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.Ellen Glasgow
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen Glasgow
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Ellen Glasgow
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
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