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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.
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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Germantown
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A. M. Barnard
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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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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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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... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Liberty must not be abused.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
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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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Love is a beautifier.
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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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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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Money is a needful and precious thing
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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
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