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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTGood books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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Better lose your life than your soul.
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