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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
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All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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