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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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A. M. Barnard
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
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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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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
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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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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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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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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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Liberty must not be abused.
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Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
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