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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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