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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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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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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
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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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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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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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She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
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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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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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Mothers can forgive anything!
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