People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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Better lose your life than your soul.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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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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I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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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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