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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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