The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

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Unfairness of life

Author

Nancy Mitford

Source

The Pursuit of Love

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. Hamish Hamilton, 1945, ch. 1.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.

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