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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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Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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I don't like favors they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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Everybody has their days of misfortune.
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.
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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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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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