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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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We generally get the evil we expect.
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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
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