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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
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
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
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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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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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