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All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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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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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
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Have your fun, my dear but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
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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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... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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