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I hate ordinary people!
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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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
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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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At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.
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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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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Life is like college may I graduate and earn some honors.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.
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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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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
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