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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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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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O vanity, mislead no more!
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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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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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