Winifred Holtby Quotes
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I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.
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On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
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The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.
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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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Why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.