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It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
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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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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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