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Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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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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I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
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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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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
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But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
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Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
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…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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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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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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