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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
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Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
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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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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Love is a beautifier.
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I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
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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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Liberty must not be abused.
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.
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