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O vanity, mislead no more!
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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Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Mislead
Deceit
Vanity
Lying
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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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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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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I could have been a great many things.
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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