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“The knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it, made her own easier to bear and strengthened her resolution to cure it, though forty years seemed rather a long time to watch and pray to a girl of fifteen.
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From Chapter EIGHT of Little Women. This is fictional dialogue or narration; its meaning depends on the surrounding scene, not on treating it as the author’s personal advice.
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Source: Little Women , Chapter EIGHT
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Excerpt checked against the linked public-domain English edition. Korean rendering and context note by Quotations; not an authorized translation. Historical punctuation is retained; line breaks and editorial footnote markers are normalized.
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