Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTA time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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