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Money is a needful and precious thing
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Needful
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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