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I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
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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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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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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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
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Love is a beautifier.
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Mothers can forgive anything!
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
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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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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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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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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
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It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
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I could have been a great many things.
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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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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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