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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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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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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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