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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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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
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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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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.
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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
Louisa May Alcott
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
Louisa May Alcott
...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
Louisa May Alcott
