Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest s…

Louisa May Alcott
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Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other. ✨ Louisa May Alcott (1869). Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories, p.251
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