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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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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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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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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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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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