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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.

Louisa May Alcott

Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Best Heart Mindset Work
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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Evil Money Root
It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Advice Fire One Liner
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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Better Fame Lose Perfection Struggle
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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Alive Friendship Growth Inspirational See Time
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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Beautiful Believe Duty Live Man Right Woman Yourself
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Comfortable Hard Time Hope Inspirational Light Soul
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Eyes Love Ordinary Wisdom
I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
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Deep Heaven Key Myself See
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Better Goodness Humor
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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Angel Beautiful Feeling Flower Learning Lesson Mystery Thinking Writing
I like good strong words that mean something.
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Goodness Meaning Myself Strong Word
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Body Book Company Faith Goodness Love Soul Yourself
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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Blessing Flower Fragrance Generosity Growth Love Miracle
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Forever Joy Lost Peace Time
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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Fall Independence Oppression Perfection Slave

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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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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