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NUMBER:3201
QUOTATION:Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
ATTRIBUTION:Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. novelist. As quoted in Louisa May, ch. 17, by Martha Saxton (1977).

Written in 1873. Alcott remained single throughout her life; among her eighteen books was a novel entitled Work, published the same year that she wrote this sentence.
 
 
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