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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.
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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Suffragette
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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