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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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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A. M. Barnard
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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
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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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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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Everybody has their days of misfortune.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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