Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMoney 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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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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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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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