Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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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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