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Better lose your life than your soul.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you? Fly at me again. I rather liked it, said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.
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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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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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...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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But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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