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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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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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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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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 have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away a stranger, yet everyone was his friend no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.
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