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... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

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
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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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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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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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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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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