Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTConceit spoils the finest genius.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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 be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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.
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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.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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.
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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.
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