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Quotation by Ellen Glasgow
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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)Related Subjects
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal, has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945), U.S. novelist. The Woman Within, ch. 21 (1954).
Written in 1937.
Written in 1937.
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