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Souls and bodies should go on together.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Bodies
Souls
Together
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Soul
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Have your fun, my dear but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Mothers can forgive anything!
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