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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

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
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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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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful to go to work with a full sense of life to be determined to put hindrances out of the way to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful there is no beatitude for the despairing.
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