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Ellen Glasgow Quotes: it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
         

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.


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