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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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...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
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Mothers can forgive anything!
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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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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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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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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