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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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
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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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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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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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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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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. . . 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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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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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 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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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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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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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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