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We generally get the evil we expect.

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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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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