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Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

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My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Louisa May Alcott, (Nov 29 1832-1888), US novelist; Her book Little Women, 1868, sold millions of copies.


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