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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.

Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a wak...

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a...

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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Real life seems to have no plots.

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

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Ivy Compton-Burnett

Novelist

Born: 1884-06-05

Died: 1969-08-27

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett DBE (5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an award-winning English novelist.More