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Love is a great beautifier.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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I'm tired of praise and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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