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He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away a stranger, yet everyone was his friend no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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Germantown
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A. M. Barnard
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The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
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