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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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A. M. Barnard
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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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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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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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People cannot be molded like clay.
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...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
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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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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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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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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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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
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