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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
Novelist
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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 have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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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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…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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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
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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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Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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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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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
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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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