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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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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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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Souls and bodies should go on together.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
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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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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
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People cannot be molded like clay.
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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Money is a needful and precious thing
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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
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