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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Genius
Spoil
Real
Talent
Modesty
Great
Virtue
Finest
Needs
Virtues
Parading
Much
Power
Gifts
Spoils
Long
Littles
Charm
Conceited
Good
Little
Goodness
Overlooked
Need
Danger
Conceit
Many

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