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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
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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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All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
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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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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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Be worthy love, and love will come.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.
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The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
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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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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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