Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIf we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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