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Ever since her childhood she had always begun to work at her chest of drawers when any sudden shock unnerved her. After a great happiness she took up her trowel and dug among the flowers of the garden; but when her heart was heavy within her, she shut her door and put her clothes to rights.

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Conscience represents a fetish to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

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Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

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Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

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And she saw now that the strong impulses which had once wrecked her happiness were the forces that had enabled her to rebuild her life out of the ruins.

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And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

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Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

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We didn't talk so much about happiness in my day. When it came, we were grateful for it, and, I suppose, a little went farther than it does nowadays. We may have been all wrong in our ideas, but we were brought up to think other things more important than happiness.

Ellen Glasgow

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Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow
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Born: April 22, 1873
Died: November 21, 1945 (aged 72)
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