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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
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
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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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…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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