It’s lovely to see people so happy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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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 emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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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.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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