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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

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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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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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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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.
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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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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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