It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPeople want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Money 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.
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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.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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