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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

Louisa May Alcott

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

Fall Independence Oppression Perfection Slave
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Deep Queen Rule Time Woman Worth
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Afraid Heaven Home Leaving Myself Run Sick
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Body Book Company Faith Goodness Love Soul Yourself
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Blessing Flower Fragrance Generosity Growth Love Miracle
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Charm Friendship Stay Vocabulary
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Beautiful Hands Humble Love
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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Age Beautiful Evidence Happiness Old Play Regret Success Time Understand Work Worth Youth
I like good strong words that mean something.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Goodness Meaning Myself Strong Word
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.
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Children Empty Face Happiness Heart Lonely Shine Sun World
Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Family Home Mom Need One Liner
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

Book Happiness Life Myself Necessary Pay People Reading Reality Sin Willing
Love is a great beautifier.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Beautiful Greatness Love One Liner
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Eyes Love Ordinary Wisdom
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Book Friendship Home Reading
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Man Woman World

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