For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTBetter lose your life than your soul.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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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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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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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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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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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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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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