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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
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Picturesque
Dirt
Mind

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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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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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Money is a needful and precious thing
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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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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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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I hate ordinary people!
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Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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Be worthy love, and love will come.
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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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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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