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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.

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
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Together
Temper
Wells
March
Tempers
Well
Hot
Forbearance
Needs
Patience
Wills
Much
Relation
Fond
Love
Infinite
Happily
Freedom
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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I don't like favors they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
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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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O vanity, mislead no more!
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
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