I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal. ✨ Lou…

Louisa May Alcott
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I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal. ✨ Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Cheney (2010). Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals, p.276, Applewood Books
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man. ✨ Louisa May Alcott (2015). The Complete Little Women Series: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys: The Belove … ▶

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal. ✨ Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Cheney (2010). Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals, p.276, Applewood Books

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