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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Duty
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Marriage
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
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politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
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Everybody has their days of misfortune.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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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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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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