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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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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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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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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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People cannot be molded like clay.
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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