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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
Novelist
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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Reality
Doe
Better
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Life
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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Forethought spares afterthought.
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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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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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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.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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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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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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