Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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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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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.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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