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 ALCOTTMoney 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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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.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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.
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There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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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.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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