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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

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.
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Fall Independence Oppression Perfection Slave
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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Bad Death Live Logic Man Worth
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.
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Better Fame Lose Perfection Struggle
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Book Friendship Home Reading
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Help Ourselves Religious Sister Support
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.
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Book Happiness Life Myself Necessary Pay People Reading Reality Sin Willing
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.
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Easy Happiness Help Kindness Love Pain Sorrow Sympathy World
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Better Goodness Humor
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.
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Blessing Flower Fragrance Generosity Growth Love Miracle
I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Inspirational Learning Myself Storm Worry
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
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
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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Beginning Book People Thinking
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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Bad Children Father God Man Noble Work
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.
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Choice Direction Emotion Learning Pain Service
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Bloom Inspirational Motivational Snow Success

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