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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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A. M. Barnard
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Flora Fairchild
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Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.
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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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The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
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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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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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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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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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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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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.
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