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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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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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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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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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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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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