Probably no one in the Five Towns takes a conscious pride in the antiquity of the potter's craft, nor in its unique and intimate relation to human life, alike civilized and uncivilized. Man hardened clay into a bowl before he spun flax and made a garment, and the last lone man will want an earthern vessel after he has abandoned his ruined house for a cave, and his woven rags for an animal's skin
Arnold Bennett, Anna of the five towns (1902; Penguin 2016), 113
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