Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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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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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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Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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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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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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