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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.
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
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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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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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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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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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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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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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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We don't choose our talents but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away a stranger, yet everyone was his friend no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
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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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