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…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
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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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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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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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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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
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Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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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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But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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People cannot be molded like clay.
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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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