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Brief author info: Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969) English writer. Had difficult childhood-governess to eleven siblings, two brothers (including favorite) died, two youngest sisters committed suicide; this background influenced work, marked by themes of parental tyranny, misery, and greed.

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Time 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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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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Wisdom Quote

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

Family Quote

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

- Judith Guest

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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- William James

Wise Quote

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom Quote

Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

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