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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
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
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Brooke
Meg
Dreadfully
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Acting
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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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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Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?
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Liberty must not be abused.
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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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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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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
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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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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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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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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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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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Mothers can forgive anything!
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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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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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
Louisa May Alcott
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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