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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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I hate ordinary people!
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But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
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