"Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people."

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Novelists from EnglandDiaristsShort story writers from EnglandWomen authors from EnglandAnthologists from England
Original Language: English

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Diary entry, 11 November 1915

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lady_Cynthia_Asquith

Diary entry, 11 November 1915