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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Suffragette
Writer
Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
Happiness
Life
Annihilation
Crown
Crowns
Neither
Understanding

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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
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the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
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