Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTDon’t try to make me grow up before my time.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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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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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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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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I like good strong words that mean something.
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