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Mothers can forgive anything!
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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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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Better lose your life than your soul.
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.
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I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
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I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
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