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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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
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Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Housekeeping
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
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The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.
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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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Mothers can forgive anything!
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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