It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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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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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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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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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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