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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
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Sister
Artistic
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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
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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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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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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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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
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I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
Louisa May Alcott
…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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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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