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All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!
Winifred Holtby
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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
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East Riding of Yorkshire
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It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.
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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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