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

Louisa May Alcott

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Book Friendship Home Reading
A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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Enjoyment Freedom Fun Holiday
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
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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Better Fame Lose Perfection Struggle
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
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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Name Right Stand Truth Victory Willing Win
Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Happiness Myself Production
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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Enjoyment Talk Woman
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Man Woman World
It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Happiness Love One Liner People See
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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Aspiration Beautiful Leadership Reach See Sunshine Try
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Help Ourselves Religious Sister Support
I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Adventure Inspirational Myself One Liner Travel
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
For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Fear Gratitude Love Pride
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Book Brain Herself

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

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