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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWhere I wholly love I wholly trust.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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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Fame 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.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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