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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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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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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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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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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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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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We generally get the evil we expect.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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A good message will always find a messenger.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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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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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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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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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful to go to work with a full sense of life to be determined to put hindrances out of the way to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful there is no beatitude for the despairing.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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