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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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
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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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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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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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