The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI like good strong words that mean something.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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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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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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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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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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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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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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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