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Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
Philadelphia
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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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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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
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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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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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{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.
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...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.
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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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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
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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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I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of 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’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
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