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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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Amelia Barr

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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

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April 21, 2024

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