Time has too much credit, said Bridget. 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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Ivy Compton-Burnett was a 19th-century English novelist. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. Read more on Wikipedia →

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