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Love is a beautifier.

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
Love

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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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Souls and bodies should go on together.
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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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