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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Dornford Yates
Born: August 7, 1885
Died: March 5, 1960 (aged 74)
Bio: Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist, Cecil William Mercer, whose novels and short stories, some humorous, some thrillers, were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.
Known for:
- The Brother of Daphne (1914)
- Adele and Co (1931)
- Berry and Co (1920)
- Jonah and Co (1922)
- The House That Berry Built (1945)
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