Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTKeep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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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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