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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Amelia Edith Huddleston
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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