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IVY COMPTON-BURNETT
English novelist
(1884 - 1969)
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"Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?"
      - Men and Wives [Books (First Lines)]

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
      - More Women Than Men (ch. 4) [Animals]

"Agnes first, Henngist second, Leah third!" said Lavinia Middleton, as her sisters and brother contested the access to the cloakroom in the hall.
      - The Mighty and Their Fall
        [Books (First Lines)]

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