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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
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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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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
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Everybody has their days of misfortune.
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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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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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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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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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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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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Have your fun, my dear but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.
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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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{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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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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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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
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