I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSimple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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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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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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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.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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