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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

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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