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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
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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
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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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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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