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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Ellen Glasgow
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"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."
— Ellen Glasgow

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. — Ellen Glasgow

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Ellen Glasgow was a Novelist from United States (1873–1945).

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This quote is attributed to Ellen Glasgow, a Novelist from United States.
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Ellen Glasgow lived from 1873 – 1945.