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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Life
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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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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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Kindness is always fashionable.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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