| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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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 (18321888), 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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