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Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.

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
Men
Happiness
Insensible
World
Times
Discontent
People
Reality
Deaf
Power
Frustration
Give
Blind
Giving
Sorrow
Great
Moved
Make
Drug
Discontents

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