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Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

Augusta Jane Evans

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep,
And find in tears a sad relief!

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It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Augusta Jane Evans

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Augusta Jane Evans

If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

Augusta Jane Evans

Augusta Jane Evans

Augusta Jane Evans

Born: May 8, 1835

Died: May 9, 1909 (aged 74)

Bio: Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson, was an American author of Southern literature.

Known for:

St. Elmo (1866)
Inez: A Tale of the Alamo (1836)
Beulah (1860)
Macaria, or, Altars of sacrifice (1864)
At the Mercy of Tiberius

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