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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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Germantown
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A. M. Barnard
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Flora Fairchild
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He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away a stranger, yet everyone was his friend no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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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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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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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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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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…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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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
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