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

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