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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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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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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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People cannot be molded like clay.
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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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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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
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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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I'm tired of praise and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.
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