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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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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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No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
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[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
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politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
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Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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