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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Life
Bloom
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Love
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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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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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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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…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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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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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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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 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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I hate ordinary people!
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
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Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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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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Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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