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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
Novelist
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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Talk
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Worried
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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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