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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
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Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.
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The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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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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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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{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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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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