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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
Novelist
Nurse
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Suffragette
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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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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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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Life is like college may I graduate and earn some honors.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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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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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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