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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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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Housekeeping
Cleaning
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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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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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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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