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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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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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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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