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Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.
Winifred Holtby
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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
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Suffragette
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
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What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.
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Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
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I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.
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When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.
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We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
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the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.
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There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
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why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
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[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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Those who prepare for war get it.
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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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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
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The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.
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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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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.
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