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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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