"Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years."
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A Buyer's Market (1952), ch. 2.
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Anthony Powell
Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was one of the most respected English novelists of his time. He is probably best known for his twelve-volume novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.
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