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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
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A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
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