People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPreserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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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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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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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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