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You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.
You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.
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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