He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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We 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.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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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 humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do 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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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