"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.“

-Louisa May Alcott

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"Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."

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"People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world."

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"I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us."

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"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."

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"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."

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"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."

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