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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Laughter
Feeling
Feelings
Always
Fatal

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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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