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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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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
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Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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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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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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