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

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