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That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place daube… - Louisa May Alcott
" "That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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About Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (29 November 1832 – 6 March 1888) was an American novelist best remembered for her novel Little Women (1868).
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A. M. Barnard
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Flora Fairfield
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Flora Fairchild
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Tribulation Periwinkle
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Louisa Alcott
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Louisa M. Alcott
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Louisa Mary Alcott
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L.M.A.
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