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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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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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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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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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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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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
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Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
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To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.
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[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.
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To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
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...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
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But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
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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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Better lose your life than your soul.
Louisa May Alcott
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
Louisa May Alcott
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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