Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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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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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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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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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