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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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
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It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.
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In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
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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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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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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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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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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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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.
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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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