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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

Louisa May Alcott

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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Amazing Best Come Help
Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Best Heart Mindset Work
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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Evil Money Root
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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Book Happiness Life Myself Necessary Pay People Reading Reality Sin Willing
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Bloom Life Love Precious
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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Consistency Deal Experience Explanation Greatness Myself Observation Pretend Remember See Wisdom
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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Accident Brave Design Fear Kill Mad Possession Weapon
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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Choice Direction Emotion Learning Pain Service
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Amazing Moral People Price
For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Fear Gratitude Love Pride
Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Bad Children Father God Man Noble Work
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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Believe Dreams Kind Life Power Pursue True
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Bloom Inspirational Motivational Snow Success
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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Children Empty Face Happiness Heart Lonely Shine Sun World
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Afraid Education Inspirational Learning Myself Storm
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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