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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Irrefutable
Unreasonable

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the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
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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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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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