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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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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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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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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
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We don't choose our talents but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
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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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Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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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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Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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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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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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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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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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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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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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O vanity, mislead no more!
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