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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
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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I don't like favors they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
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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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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
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Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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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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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
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