Ivy Compton-Burnett - A family and a fortune (1939)

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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

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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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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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'She still seems to me in her own way a person born to command,' said Luce... 'I wonder if anyone is born to obey,' said Isabel. 'That may be why people command rather badly, that they have no suitable material to work on.'

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People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.

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That is the worst of kindness; people take advantage of it.

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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

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"Well, of course, people are only human," said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women. "But it really does not seem much for them to be."

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Some people always have a touch of youth about them.

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'I should not like Aubrey to die,' said Dudley. 'I only nearly died, and it would give him the immediate advantage.'

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