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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

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
Always
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Laughter
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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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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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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One should not run on a new road.
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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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A good message will always find a messenger.
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We generally get the evil we expect.
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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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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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