More From Amelia Barr
- "It is always the simple that produces the marvelous."
- "Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
- "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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- "On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France."― John Dyer
- "In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man’s inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home."― Ellsworth Huntington
- "The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."― William Hazlitt