If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTEvery house needs a grandmother in it.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Money 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.
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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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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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I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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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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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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