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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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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
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