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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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
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It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
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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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It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.
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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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