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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Life
Fiction
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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Kindness is always fashionable.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
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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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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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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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There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
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