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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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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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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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Kindness is always fashionable.
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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