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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSalt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of 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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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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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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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 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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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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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.
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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