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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Misfortunes
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Misfortune
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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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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…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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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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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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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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Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
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I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
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Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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