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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Winifred Holtby
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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
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[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
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Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
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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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