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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.
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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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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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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It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.
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Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.
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Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
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