Ellen Glasgow's Quote - A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or fina

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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

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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. – Ellen Glasgow

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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. – Ellen Glasgow

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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