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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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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Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
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I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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Everybody has their days of misfortune.
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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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