Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTGood books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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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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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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