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For Myself Alone, I Would Not Be

by Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

"For myself alone, I would not be
Ambitious in my wish; but, for you,
I would be trebled twenty times myself;
A thousand times more fair,
Ten thousand times more rich."




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