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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
Picturesque
Dirt
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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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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
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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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Souls and bodies should go on together.
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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.
Louisa May Alcott
... 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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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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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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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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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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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
Louisa May Alcott
Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
Louisa May Alcott
