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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
Deceit
Vanity
Lying
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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
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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.
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