| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 3200 |
| QUOTATION: | Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Louisa May Alcott (18321888), U.S. author. Amy March, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 16 (1869). |
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