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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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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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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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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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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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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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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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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
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Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.
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