A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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