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I Never Agree With The Compliments Paid To It. It 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.
-Ivy Compton-Burnett
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I Never Agree With The Compliments Paid

Ivy Compton-Burnett
I Never Agree With The Compliments Paid To It. It 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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