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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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Picturesque
Dirt
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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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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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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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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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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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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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.
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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'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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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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O vanity, mislead no more!
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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
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At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.
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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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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
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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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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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