I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSalt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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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.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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