Every house needs a grandmother in it.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTDon’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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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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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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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