Many argue; not many converse.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMarriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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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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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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 often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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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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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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I 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.
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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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