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It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

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Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Born: June 5, 1884
Died: August 27, 1969 (aged 85)
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