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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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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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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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