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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

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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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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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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... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
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