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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (/ˈɔːlkət, -kɒt/; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

Falling In Love, Fun, Love, Peace, Sister, Together

…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

Exists, Hard, Little Women, Nearest, Overcoming, Reserves

. . . for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

Eye, Girl, Like, Lover, Lovers, Ruled

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Happiness, Happy, Mind, Pleasant, Time

Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.

Beautiful, Hard, Hours, Live

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Assertiveness, Duty, Greater, Owe

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Actions, Become, Believe, Believes, Self, Strong

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

Blow, Easy, Give, Giving, Kissing

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Children, Fortune, Fortunes, Good, Mother

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Contented, Men, Peace, Poor, Queens, Self

. . . and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

Girl, Desire, Passionate, Intense, Room

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Being Strong, Doubts, Inspirational, Precede, Strength, Strong

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

Grief, Loneliness, Nothing, Remained

A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

Teacher, Art, Children, Book, Dancing

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!

Alway, Hands, Heart, Think, Thinking, Work

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Generations, Help, Men, Wise

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.

Life, Lonely, Memories, Memory, Sweet

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.

Believed, Dozen, Eye, Newspaper, Puff, Sparkled

I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.

Beginnings, Ends, Make

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

Grow, Growing Up, Grows, Make, Time, Trying

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