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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Amelia Edith Huddleston
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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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