Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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