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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 put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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