The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIn 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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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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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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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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