Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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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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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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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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