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The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.

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
Novelist
Suffragette
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
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Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.
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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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