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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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Wholly
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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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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)
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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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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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Money is a needful and precious thing
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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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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
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Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
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