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Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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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Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Babies
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Men
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She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
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In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
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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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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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Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)
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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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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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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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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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