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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Cruelly
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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