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most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Vera Brittain

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Vera Brittain
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 29
Died: 1970
Died: March 29
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Nurse
Pacifist
Peace Activist
Poet
Suffragist
Writer
Vera Mary Brittain
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I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.
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few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.
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We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
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The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
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The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
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The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
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Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.
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I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
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