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In This Our Life (1941)Jenny Blair, in The Sheltered Life (1932)Sam Murray, in The Deliverance (1904)The Quotable Woman ed. Elaine Partnow (1982)The Voice of the People (1900)

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He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionise the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted—and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945), U.S. novelist. The Voice of the People, bk. 2, ch. 4 (1900).

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