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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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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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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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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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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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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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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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Many argue; not many converse.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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