All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and s…

Louisa May Alcott
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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. ✨ Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Cheney (2010). Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals, p.262, Applewood Books
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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. ✨ Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Cheney (2010). Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals, p.262, Applewood Books

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