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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Fame
House
Money
Thing
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Convenient
Cash
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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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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Have your fun, my dear but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.
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Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
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