A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPeople want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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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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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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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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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 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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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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