Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHe was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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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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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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