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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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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Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Dirt
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Picturesque
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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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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I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
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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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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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Life is like college may I graduate and earn some honors.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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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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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
Louisa May Alcott
{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
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