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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
Youth
Anything
Without
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Escaping
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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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