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Ellen Glasgow

"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."

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"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."

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"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."

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"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."

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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

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"There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live."

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"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason."

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"Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores."

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"Right reason is stronger than force."

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"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."

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"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."

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"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."
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"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
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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."
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"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
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