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By Louisa May Alcott
I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo; but I have learned not to show it; and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.
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- Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (Part 1, first edition), 1868 · Part 1, Chapter VIII, "Jo meets Apollyon", p. 119 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Internet Archive (University of California scan of Little Women, Part 1, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868; the title page reads 1868)
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From Chapter VIII, "Jo meets Apollyon", of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, Part 1 (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868, first edition). Spoken by Mrs. March (Marmee) to her daughter Jo, who has just said that her mother is never angry.