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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMen are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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