I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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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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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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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