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 ALCOTTIt’s lovely to see people so happy.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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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’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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