You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. - Louisa May Alcott

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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.

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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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Alternative Names: A. M. Barnard • Flora Fairfield • Flora Fairchild • Louisa Alcott • Louisa M. Alcott • Louisa Mary Alcott • Tribulation Periwinkle • L.M.A.
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When the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.
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