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I could have been a great many things.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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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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Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.
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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
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Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
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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 want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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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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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
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I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
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