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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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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 think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
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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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I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.
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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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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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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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…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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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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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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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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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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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
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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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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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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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