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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Heart
Mind
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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.
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I could have been a great many things.
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
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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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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
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Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
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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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politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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