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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
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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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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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
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