I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTDon’t try to make me grow up before my time.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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