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This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
Winifred Holtby
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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
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Journalist
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Suffragette
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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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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Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.
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