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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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.
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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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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
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Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
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Everybody has their days of misfortune.
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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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No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
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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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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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I'm tired of praise and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.
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