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Them Quotes by Amelia Barr
- The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
- 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…
- 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…
- When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
- 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…
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