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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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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...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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... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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