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Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

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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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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Be worthy love, and love will come.
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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
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