I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWe can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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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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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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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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