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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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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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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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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
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