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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Louisa May Alcott

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Amazing Moral People Price
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Better Fame Lose Perfection Struggle
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Book Happiness Life Myself Necessary Pay People Reading Reality Sin Willing
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Body Book Company Faith Goodness Love Soul Yourself
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Forever Joy Lost Peace Time
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Forgiveness Let Go Mom World Yourself
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Better Hard Lose Lost Man Rule Scars Soul Teach Yourself
I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Deep Heaven Key Myself See
The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Beautiful Body Growth Mindset Strength Strong Togetherness Woman
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Alone Fly Happiness Storm Strong Wild Wind
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Deep Queen Rule Time Woman Worth
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Carry Easy End Love
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Art Garden Natural Rose Wild
If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Alive Friendship Growth Inspirational See Time
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Afraid Education Inspirational Learning Myself Storm
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Experiment Fear Freedom Goodness Liberty Reality Shame Slave Try World

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