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Be worthy love, and love will come.
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
Nurse
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Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Patience
Worthy
Come
Love
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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'm tired of praise and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.
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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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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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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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