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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Ridicule
Denial
Patience
Bear
Bears
Harder
Often
Self
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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
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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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Be worthy love, and love will come.
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