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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
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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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I don't like favors they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.
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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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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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I like good strong words that mean something.
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
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Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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