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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

~ Louisa May Alcott

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It's lovely to see people so happy.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…wisely mingled poetry and prose.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.

~ Heather Demetrios

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…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters love their duty and do it so well, or you would perish off the face of the earth,' said Mrs. Jo solemnly…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I like good strong words that mean something…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

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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.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I can get on with wild beasts first-rate, but men rile me awfully…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

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She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there’s no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how wonderfully Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessing.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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Don't try to make me grow up before my time…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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