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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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