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Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

Winifred Holtby

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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Suffragette
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
Betray
Enemy
Great
Time
Betrays

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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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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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we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.
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