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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
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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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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The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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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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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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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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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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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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People cannot be molded like clay.
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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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O vanity, mislead no more!
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