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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
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