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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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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Suffragette
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Beauty
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Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
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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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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
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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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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away a stranger, yet everyone was his friend no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.
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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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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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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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Life is like college may I graduate and earn some honors.
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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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