Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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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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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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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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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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