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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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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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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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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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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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