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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
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Lose
Loses
Soul
Better
Life

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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
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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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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.
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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
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