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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Soul
Keeps
Youth

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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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