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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
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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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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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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Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
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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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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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I could have been a great many things.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.
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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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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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