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As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.
As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.
Approximate author period: c. 1860 AD · industrial
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- Louisa May Alcott
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- Approximate author period: c. 1860 AD · industrial
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