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Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.
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Harold Speed
Born:
February 11, 1872
Died:
March 20, 1957
(aged 85)
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Harold Speed was an English painter in oil and watercolour of portraits, figures and historical subjects.
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