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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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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
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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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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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…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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Life is like college may I graduate and earn some honors.
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To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
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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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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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