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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
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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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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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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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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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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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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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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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