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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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
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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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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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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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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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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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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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