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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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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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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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Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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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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...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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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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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
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Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
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I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
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