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To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
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
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Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Simply
Sleep
Comes
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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