Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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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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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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We can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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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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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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