Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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 don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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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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