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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
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Housekeeping
Cleaning
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More quotes by Louisa May Alcott
I hate ordinary people!
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Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
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Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
Louisa May Alcott
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
Louisa May Alcott
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
Louisa May Alcott
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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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
Louisa May Alcott
I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
Louisa May Alcott
Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
Louisa May Alcott
politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
Louisa May Alcott
Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
Louisa May Alcott
John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
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