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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
Novelist
Nurse
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Suffragette
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
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People cannot be molded like clay.
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
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Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
Louisa May Alcott
O vanity, mislead no more!
Louisa May Alcott
The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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