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I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. -- Louisa May Alcott
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Ought they to smoke like that? -- Louisa May Alcott
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You think then, that it is better to have a few duties and live a little for others, do you? -- Louisa May Alcott
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... she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star. -- Louisa May Alcott
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By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It does seem to me that some one might write stories that should be lively, natural and helpful tales in which the English should be good, the morals pure, and the characters such as we can love in spite of the faults that all may have. -- Louisa May Alcott
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But he did, oh, bless you, yes, hundreds of times, and so did Meg, both declaring that it was the sweetest jelly they ever made; for family peace was preserved in that little family jar. -- Louisa May Alcott
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But I am afraid I don't, -- Louisa May Alcott
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But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today. -- Louisa May Alcott
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He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky. -- Louisa May Alcott
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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. -- Louisa May Alcott
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There are plenty to love you so try to be satisfied with Father and Mother, Sisters and Brothers, friends and babies till the best lover of all comes to give you your reward. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit. -- Louisa May Alcott
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In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo, who loved her very tenderly, and obeyed her because her advice was so gently given. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I've loved you ever since I've known you, Jo, - couldn't help it, you've been so good to me, - I've tried to show it, but you wouldn't let me; now I'm going to make you hear, and give me an answer, for I can't go on so any longer. - Laurie -- Louisa May Alcott
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No, Mother, it is better as it is, and I'm glad Amy has learned to love him. But you are right in one thing. I am lonely, and perhaps if Teddy had tried again, I might have said 'Yes,' not because I love him any more, but because I care more to be loved than when he went away. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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I shall never 'go and marry' anyone," observed Meg, walking on with great dignity while the others followed, laughing, whispering, skipping stones, and 'behaving like children', as Meg said to herself, -- Louisa May Alcott
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Oft in the silence of the night,
When the lonely moon rides high,
When wintry winds are whistling,
And we hear the owl's shrill cry,
In the quiet, dusky chamber,
By the flickering firelight,
Rising up between two sleepers,
Comes a spirit all in white. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything. Let's each buy what we want, and have a little fun; I'm sure we work hard enough to earn it, cried Jo, examining the heels of her shoes in a gentlemanly manner. -- Louisa May Alcott
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She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear." "My good mother used to help me..." "As you do us..." interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. "But I lost her when I was a little older than you are, -- Louisa May Alcott
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You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? -- Louisa May Alcott
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. -- Louisa May Alcott
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That's it! said Jo to herself, when she at length discovered that genuine good will toward one's fellow men could beautify and dignify even a stout German teacher, who shoveled in his dinner, darned his own socks, and was burdened with the name of Bhaer. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. -- Louisa May Alcott
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But a time came when her patience gave out; and wearying of being a lion, she became a bear in nature as in name, and returning to her den, growled awfully when ordered out. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens -- Louisa May Alcott
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As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers on all possible occasions, so I turned military at once, called my dinner my rations, saluted all new comers, and ordered a dress parade that very afternoon. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names -- Louisa May Alcott
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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way -- Louisa May Alcott
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To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don't care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Head, you may think; heart, you may feel;
But hand, you shall work alway! -- Louisa May Alcott
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But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Blowzy head to her shoulder and kissing the wet cheek so tenderly that Jo cried even harder. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world! -- Louisa May Alcott
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... that's what old people are here for, - else their experience is of little use. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place. -- Louisa May Alcott
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He can give you one thing, Tilly, - the pleasure of doing good. That is one of the sweetest things in life; and the poor can enjoy it as well as the rich. -- Louisa May Alcott
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and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, -- Louisa May Alcott
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So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know, but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life. Upon my word I will! and Laurie meant what he said. -- Louisa May Alcott
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When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, - that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping - their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. -- Louisa May Alcott
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A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic. -- Louisa May Alcott
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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Sometimes when we least expect it, a small cross proves a lovely crown, a seemingly unimportant event becomes a lifelong experience, or a stranger becomes a friend -- Louisa May Alcott
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. -- Louisa May Alcott
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Nd I shall think her very mean indeed if she does not give me some of her gloves, for she has many of them, I've seen them myself ... and as you can see, I took the hint ... but not much love went into THAT package did it, my dear? -- Louisa May Alcott
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never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live. -- Louisa May Alcott
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[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family. -- Louisa May Alcott
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A child her wayward pencil drew
On margins of her book;
Garlands of flower, dancing elves,
Bud, butterfly, and brook,
Lessons undone, and plum forgot,
Seeking with hand and heart
The teacher whom she learned to love
Before she knew t'was Art. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I thought it was only a habit, easy to drop when I liked: But it is stronger than I; and sometimes I feel as if possessed of a devil that will get the better of me, try as I may -- Louisa May Alcott
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I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, because I'm poor, and can't enjoy my life as other girls do. It's a shame! -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I want to do something splendid ... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday. -- Louisa May Alcott
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A capital patient, as she never died and never got well. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Crochety friend. On the afternoon of the second day, she went out to do an -- Louisa May Alcott
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Be worthy love, and love will come. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Oh, Mother, help me, do help me! -- Louisa May Alcott
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If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing to the world though, as most of us write too much now,' said Mrs. Jo ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it; so that when the happy time comes, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author's best education; and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die. -- Louisa May Alcott
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smile upon him far, far from foemen's power. And Mohammed, thinking to look upon a dying slave, shall -- Louisa May Alcott
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And I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. -- Louisa May Alcott
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For love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. The -- Louisa May Alcott
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I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done. -- Louisa May Alcott
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For they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental. -- 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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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. -- Louisa May Alcott
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This is the first duty of parents, and no false delicacy should keep them from the watchful care, the gentle warning, which makes self-knowledge and self-control the compass and pilot of the young as they leave the safe harbour of home. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun,' said Mrs March. 'In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events; this has been such an one, but it ends well, after all. -- Louisa May Alcott
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She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great. -- Louisa May Alcott
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If every one agreed, we should never get on. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Who are your heroes?" asked Jo.
"Grandfather and Napoleon. -- Louisa May Alcott
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"I do not ask for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the world within." -- Louisa May Alcott
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... Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it. It's -- Louisa May Alcott
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Four little chests all in a row,
Dim with dust, and worn by time,
Four women, taught by weal and woe
To love and labor in their prime. "
"Four sisters, parted for an hour,
None lost, one only gone before,
Made by love's immortal power,
Nearest and dearest evermore. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Children should be children as long as they can. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Let's hear the sound of the baby pianny. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Where the heart is the mind works best. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I know you've got something nice in your pocket, George; give her some, -- Louisa May Alcott
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Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored. -- Louisa May Alcott
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(E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'll try to be what Father loves to call me, a 'little woman,' and not be rough and wild but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else," said Jo, -- Louisa May Alcott
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operatic tragedy began. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. -- Louisa May Alcott
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.
"That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose. -- Louisa May Alcott
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And Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again. -- Louisa May Alcott
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She discovered that her feet were cold, her head ached, and that her heart was colder than the former, fuller of pain than the latter. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends. -- Louisa May Alcott
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There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Genius. Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie?" And she slyly smiled in his disappointed face. -- Louisa May Alcott
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There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... he felt he could willingly give his life for them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. When -- Louisa May Alcott
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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied ... strength and beauty must go together. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck. -- Louisa May Alcott
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mrs March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and, when it was possible, she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.* -- Louisa May Alcott
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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I Know I shall be homesick for you ... Even in heaven -- Louisa May Alcott
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As they gathered about the table, Mrs. March said, with a particularly happy face, "I've got a treat for you after supper. -- Louisa May Alcott
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We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I never thought I should like to wash dishes, but I do, said Rose, as she sat in a boat after supper lazily rinsing plates in the sea, and rocking luxuriously as she wiped them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. -- Louisa May Alcott
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To be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be loved and chosen -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love is a beautifier. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. -- Louisa May Alcott
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George is regularly jolly; though now he's a minister, -- Louisa May Alcott
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What right have I to more gay gowns, when some poor babies have none; or to spend time making myself fine, while there is so much bitter want in the world? -- Louisa May Alcott
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I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March) -- Louisa May Alcott
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During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone -- Louisa May Alcott
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So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her. -- Louisa May Alcott
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But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Housekeeping ain't no joke. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy, and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay home and knit like a poky old woman (Josephine) -- Louisa May Alcott
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Unlocking the treasuries of real home love and mutual helpfulness, which the poorest may possess, and the richest cannot buy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost. -- Louisa May Alcott
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. Meg is the turtledove, -- Louisa May Alcott
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The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Let us be elegant or die! -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't believe any of you suffer as I do," cried Amy, "for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Help one another, was a favorite Plumfield motto, and Nat learned how much sweetness is added to life by trying to live up to it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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laughter. "Glad to find you so merry, my girls," said a cheery -- Louisa May Alcott
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To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on -- 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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I agree not to expect anything -- Louisa May Alcott
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We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be. -- Louisa May Alcott
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When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you; so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Occasionally a matrimonial epidemic appears, especially toward spring, devastating society, thinning the ranks of bachelordom, and leaving mothers lamenting for their fairest daughters. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only aim and end of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone. -- Louisa May Alcott
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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply.
Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear' is still more trying to us. -- Louisa May Alcott
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How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one ... if he's the right one. -- Louisa May Alcott
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She said, hoping to soothe him with a little reason, which proved that she knew nothing about love. -- Louisa May Alcott
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And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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At this command, to Rose's great dismay, six more hands were offered, and it was evident that she was expected to shake them all. -- Louisa May Alcott
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This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,' said Mrs. Jessie sadly. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I hate ordinary people! -- Louisa May Alcott
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And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Lounging and larking doesn't pay," observed Jo, shaking her head. "I'm tired of it and mean to go to work at something right off. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked. -- Louisa May Alcott
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That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Is it not meningitis? -- Louisa May Alcott
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We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten and music silent. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Now, if you make fun of my plan I'll give you bad coffee for a week, and then where are you, sir? cried Mrs. Jo, tweaking him by the ear just as if he was one of the boys. -- Louisa May Alcott
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So I did, Beth. Well, I think we are. For though we do have to work, we make fun of ourselves, -- Louisa May Alcott
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them? -- Louisa May Alcott
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A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity! -- Louisa May Alcott
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... if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield. -- Louisa May Alcott
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But what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers? -- Louisa May Alcott
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Ah, but it wasn't all right, and Jo did mind, for while the curly head lay on her arm a minute after her hard answer, she felt as if she had stabbed her dearest friend, and when he left her without a look behind him, she knew that the boy Laurie never would come again. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Hither I come, From my airy home, Afar in the silver moon. Take the magic spell, And use it well, Or its power will vanish soon! And -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage -- Louisa May Alcott
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Many argue; not many converse. -- Louisa May Alcott
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So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I remember hearing grandpa say that a love for god books was one of the best safeguards a man could have,' began Archie, staring thoughtfully at the fine library before him. -- Louisa May Alcott
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How can girls like to have lovers and refuse them? I think it's dreadful. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can -- Louisa May Alcott
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Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I think it was so splendid in Father to go as a chaplain when he was too old to be drafted, and not strong enough for a soldier, said Meg warmly. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Is that my boy?'
As sure as this is my girl! -- Louisa May Alcott
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... proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo -- Louisa May Alcott
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He did not say a word, but took the hand she offered him, and laid his face down on it for a minute, feeling that out of the grave of a boyish passion, there had risen a beautiful, strong friendship to bless them both. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief. -- 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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You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Nat played away and never minded anyone, while his eyes shone, his cheeks reddened, and his thin fingers flew, as he hugged the old fiddle and made it speak to all their hearts the language that he loved. -- Louisa May Alcott
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He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend. -- Louisa May Alcott
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What in the world are you going to do now, Jo? asked Meg one snowy afternoon, -- Louisa May Alcott
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Taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction. -- Louisa May Alcott
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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped. -- Louisa May Alcott
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And clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself. -- Louisa May Alcott
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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps. -- Louisa May Alcott
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These hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us. -- Louisa May Alcott
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man. -- Louisa May Alcott
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As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing. -- Louisa May Alcott
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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together. -- Louisa May Alcott
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She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there's no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'd take it manfully, and be respected if I couldn't be loved -- Louisa May Alcott
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The big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty -- Louisa May Alcott
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There was a good deal of laughing, and kissing, and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, then all fell to work.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott -- Louisa May Alcott
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The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Money is a needful and precious thing -- Louisa May Alcott
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I was wondering how you and Amy get on together. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! -- Louisa May Alcott
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Dolls are safe companions. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Christopher Columbus -- Louisa May Alcott
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It takes two flints to make a fire. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'm here, hold on to me, Jo, dear!" - Laurie -- Louisa May Alcott
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Now with new paint, added wings, well-kept lawn and -- Louisa May Alcott
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Don't think I have any words in which to tell the meeting of the mother and daughters. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom. -- Louisa May Alcott
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays. -- Louisa May Alcott
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. -- 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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Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Into each life some rain must fall, Somedays must be dark and sad and dreary. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."
"They're not empty now. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I can't love anyone else; and I'll never forget you, Jo, never! never! with a stamp to emphasize his passionate words. - Laurie -- Louisa May Alcott
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood. -- Louisa May Alcott
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For when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Souls and bodies should go on together. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Study of Shakespeare helped her to read character, or -- Louisa May Alcott
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There, I've done my best. If that wont do, I shall have to wait till I can do better. -- Louisa May Alcott
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No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing, sometimes, that father and mother hadn't been so dreadfully particular about such things. -- Jo -- Louisa May Alcott
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That's the interferingest chap I ever see, -- Louisa May Alcott
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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And the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed -- Louisa May Alcott
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... feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Their best; get them out into the air; and cure their ills by the magnetism of more active, -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... for action is always easier than quiet waiting. -- 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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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries! -- Louisa May Alcott
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I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions -- Louisa May Alcott
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Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March) -- Louisa May Alcott
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His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness and strength. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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... having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Half done, she left her establishment topsy-turvy -- Louisa May Alcott
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all. -- Louisa May Alcott
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As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo began to dance a jig, ... Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end! -- Louisa May Alcott
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It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Faber's drawing-pencils; -- Louisa May Alcott
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What a strange yet pleasant day that was. So brilliant and gay without, for all the world -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mothers can forgive anything! -- Louisa May Alcott
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To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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he came for her sake alone. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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girls," said a cheery voice at the door, and actors and audience -- 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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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Women who dare " are few , the women who who "stand and wait" are many -- Louisa May Alcott
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents. -- Louisa May Alcott
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(D)espair never lives long in young hearts -- Louisa May Alcott
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Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. -- Louisa May Alcott
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But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Sympathy is a sweet thing. -- Louisa May Alcott
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take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal; -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love will make you show your heart someday... -- Louisa May Alcott
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You don't have half such a hard time as I do," said Jo. "How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you're ready to fly out the window or cry? -- Louisa May Alcott
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The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been -- Louisa May Alcott
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... the violin - that most human of all instruments ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty -- Louisa May Alcott
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I planned to spend mine in new music, said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder. -- Louisa May Alcott
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He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways? said Meg reprovingly. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'd rather give her new ones, for I think she is a little bit proud and might not like old things. If she was my sister it would do, because sisters don't mind, but she isn't, and that makes it bad, you see. I know how I can manage beautifully; I'll adopt her! and Rose looked quite radiant with -- Louisa May Alcott
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Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in dispare. -- Louisa May Alcott
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CASTLES IN THE AIR Laurie -- Louisa May Alcott
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Books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. -- Louisa May Alcott
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said slowly, "May I ask you a question, dear? -- Louisa May Alcott
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Remember sarcasm is forbidden and sincerity the order of the day. You are country folks now, and it will do you good to try their simple, honest ways for a few days. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave! -- Louisa May Alcott
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I know I do - teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home, began Meg, in the complaining tone again. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play -- Louisa May Alcott
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Grief is the best opener of some hearts, -- Louisa May Alcott
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He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love and Loyalty
If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other. -- Louisa May Alcott
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My Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest happiness and pride to feel that my girls confide in me and know how much I love them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Both of us hope and trust that our daughters, whether married or single, will be the pride and comfort of our lives. -- 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. 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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O Christie! never think it's time to die till you are called; for the Lord leaves us till we have done our work, and never sends more sin and sorrow than we can bear and be the better for, if we hold fast by Him. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests. -- Louisa May Alcott
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( ... ) replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly -- Louisa May Alcott
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. -- Louisa May Alcott
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She is too fond of books and it has addled her mind. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'm glad of it, that's one of your foolish extravagances, sending flowers and things to girls for whom you don't care two pins," continued Jo reprovingly. "Sensible girls for whom I do care whole papers of pins won't let me send them 'flowers and things', so what can I do? My feelings need a 'vent'. -- Louisa May Alcott
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For a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You've had the scarlet fever, haven't you?" "Years ago, when Meg did. Why?" "Then I'll tell you. Oh, Jo, the baby's dead!" "What baby?" "Mrs. Hummel's. It died in my lap before she got home," cried Beth with a sob. "My -- Louisa May Alcott
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What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie.
"Margaret."
"Which do you like the best?"
"Jo, of course."
"What silly questions you ask!" and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone -- Louisa May Alcott
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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love is a great beautifier. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'm a bashful individual, though I can't get anyone to believe it ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it! -- Louisa May Alcott
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Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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He danced like a grasshopper on fire, -- Louisa May Alcott
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...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Finish it if you choose only remember, my girl, that one may read at forty what is unsafe at twenty, and that we never can be too careful what food we give that precious yet perilous thing called imagination. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!'" ~Rosamond -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?" she said, quite bewildered. "There is truth in it, Jo, that's the secret. -- Louisa May Alcott
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What shall you do all your vacation?', asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I think we are all hopelessly flawed. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us. -- Louisa May Alcott
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A love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have, -- Louisa May Alcott
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I wish we could wash from our hearts and souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they. Then on the earth there would be indeed, A glorious washing day! -- Louisa May Alcott
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder. -- Louisa May Alcott
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? -- Louisa May Alcott
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If she really had any doubt, the look in Dr. Alec's face banished it without a word, as he opened wide his arms and she ran into them, feeling that home was here. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's not half so sensible to leave legacies when one dies as it is to use the money wisely while alive, and enjoy making one's fellow creatures happy with it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Trifles show character -- Louisa May Alcott
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Because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You think so now, but there'll come a time when you will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him. I know you will, it's your way, and I shall have to stand by and see it, -- Louisa May Alcott
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. -- Louisa May Alcott
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For his Atlanta came panting up with flying hair, bright eyes, ruddy cheeks, and no signs of dissatisfaction in her face. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Doing nicely, sir. And off went Jo, talking very fast, as she told all about the Hummels, in whom her mother had interested richer friends than they were. -- Louisa May Alcott
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For it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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I like adventures, and I'm going to find some. -- Louisa May Alcott
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence. -- Louisa May Alcott
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All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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mother's Diana-like -- Louisa May Alcott
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... I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, added little Amy, with an injured sniff. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. -- Louisa May Alcott
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All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted -- Louisa May Alcott
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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now. -- Louisa May Alcott
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People cannot be molded like clay. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The mixture of German and American spirit in them produces a constant state of effervescence. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed. -- Louisa May Alcott
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was a long upper hall full -- Louisa May Alcott
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN SECRETS Jo -- Louisa May Alcott
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Kindness in looks and words and ways is true politeness, and any one can have it if they only try to treat other people as they like to be treated themselves. -- Louisa May Alcott
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A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes. -- Louisa May Alcott
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We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart -- Louisa May Alcott
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Beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's -- Louisa May Alcott
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home. -- Louisa May Alcott
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We've got Father and Mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Woman work a great many miracles. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Stage-struck! cried Meg, and -- Louisa May Alcott
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It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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How beautiful that is! said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Every house needs a grandmother in it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Let us be elegant or die!
Amy -- Louisa May Alcott
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For she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Better destroy the body than the soul.'" ~Rosamond -- Louisa May Alcott
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Never take advice! -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'm not Meg tonight, I'm a 'doll'. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Everybody has their days of misfortune. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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if all else fails you can read -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's lovely to see people so happy. -- Louisa May Alcott
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By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper) ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion. -- Louisa May Alcott
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls. -- Louisa May Alcott
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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not? -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Keep bobbing, and we'll come right by and by. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady. -- Louisa May Alcott
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An old maid, that's what I'm to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Virtue was its own reward. -- Louisa May Alcott
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When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. -- Louisa May Alcott
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she won't wish us to give up everything. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintran for myself. I've wanted it so long, said Jo, who was a bookworm. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think -- Louisa May Alcott
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... thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'm so fond of luxury -- Louisa May Alcott
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For love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." "I'll try, Beth." And -- Louisa May Alcott
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Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women. -- Louisa May Alcott
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strength and beauty must go hand in hand -- Louisa May Alcott
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[It may be true that] men never know a pretty thing when they see it. [But men do] know a lady when they see one. -- Louisa May Alcott
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For the sincere wish to be good is half the battle. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Because, what?" "You won't tell?" "Never!" "Well, I have a bad trick -- Louisa May Alcott
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Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it? -- Louisa May Alcott
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To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything. -- Louisa May Alcott
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There is no other help or hope for human weakness but God's love and patience. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Don't laugh, but your nose is such a comfort to me," and Amy softly caressed the well-cut feature with artistic satisfaction. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Went to Wiesbaden first, a pleasant, gay place, full of people. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen. -- Louisa May Alcott
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We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want.
~Amy March~ -- Louisa May Alcott
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Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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The sweetness of self-denial and self-control, -- Louisa May Alcott
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I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Rivalry adds so much to the charm of one's conquests. -- Louisa May Alcott
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But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she knew the cause of Beth's new pain, she only said, in her tenderest tone, Does anything trouble you, deary? -- Louisa May Alcott
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Dear old fellow! He couldn't have got himself up with more care if he'd been going a-wooing, said Jo to herself, and then a sudden thought born of the words made her blush so dreadfully that she had to drop her ball, and go down after it to hide her face. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Emil and Jack established rival claims to a certain thick patch, and while they were squabbling about, Stuffy quickly and quietly stripped the bushes and fled to the protection of Dan -- Louisa May Alcott
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust. -- Louisa May Alcott
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If you behaved properly, they would, but knowing you like their nonsense, they keep it up, and then you blame them. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. - -- Louisa May Alcott
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Undine and Sintram for -- Louisa May Alcott
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I haven't got any mother, you know. -- Louisa May Alcott
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many queer things passed through it as through -- Louisa May Alcott
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I intend to study love as well as medicine, for it is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and the best way to understand it is to have it. I may catch it someday, and then I should like to know how to treat and cure it.
- Mac (Rose In Bloom) -- Louisa May Alcott
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The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for -- Louisa May Alcott
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I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor -- Louisa May Alcott
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... trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up a word of encouragement. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate, -- Louisa May Alcott
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I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died. -- Louisa May Alcott
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That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You have said that a dozen times within the last three weeks." "I dare say, short answers save trouble. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Hope and keep busy', -- Louisa May Alcott
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... I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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You have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it, -- Louisa May Alcott
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She laughed at herself for this fancy at first; but not possessing the sweet unconsciousness of those heroines who can live through three volumes with a burning passion before their eyes, and never see it till the proper moment comes, -- Louisa May Alcott
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Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place 'the world would be! -- Louisa May Alcott
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A lover is not worth having if he's not in earnest. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I think anxiety is very interesting, observed Amy, eating sugar pensively. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Yes, you do. You get everything you want out of people. I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler." "Thank you. Fire away. -- Louisa May Alcott
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(V)irtue, like sunshine, works its own sweet miracles -- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's so dreadful to be poor! -- Louisa May Alcott
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I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. -- Louisa May Alcott
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... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints. -- Louisa May Alcott
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If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answers. I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there. -- Louisa May Alcott
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The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Do you consider shoes unhealthy? he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest -- Louisa May Alcott
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Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her -- Louisa May Alcott
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... often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Liberty must not be abused. -- Louisa May Alcott
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When I seemed most like a child I was learning to be a woman. -- Louisa May Alcott
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If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what -- Louisa May Alcott
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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it. -- Louisa May Alcott
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That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. -- Louisa May Alcott
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Freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness. -- Louisa May Alcott
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money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks. "I -- Louisa May Alcott
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The more one gets the more one wants -- Louisa May Alcott
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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe ... -- Louisa May Alcott
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps. -- Louisa May Alcott
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I wish Americans were as simple and natural as Germans, don't you? I'm -- Louisa May Alcott
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I could have been a great many things. -- 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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Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort. -- Louisa May Alcott
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You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way. -- Louisa May Alcott
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It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh, -- Louisa May Alcott