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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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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Thing
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.
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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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I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
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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 did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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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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…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
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