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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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Germantown
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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
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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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I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
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Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.
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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
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