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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
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of 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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Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
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