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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
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Dirt
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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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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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes 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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...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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We don't choose our talents but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
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It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
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I hate ordinary people!
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
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Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.
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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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In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
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She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
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