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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.
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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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To young people the future is still long.
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[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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