A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
Louisa May Alcott
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I hate ordinary people!
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the child's heart bled when it was broken.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 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 But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any wa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getti...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Love covers a multitude of sins…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
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HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
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has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
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Exce...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
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While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ...the words 'we are sisters' went straight to her heart and nestled there.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the child's heart bled when it was broken.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the violin — that most human of all instruments…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I hate ordinary people!
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Be worthy love, and love will come.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shap...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the be...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I could have been a great many things.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an America...
LOUISA ALCOTT People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for...
LOUISA ALCOTT My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding th...
LOUISA ALCOTT I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seem...
LOUISA ALCOTT If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA ALCOTT I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests
LOUISA ALCOTT Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA ALCOTT Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
LOUISA ALCOTT My occupation is solely that of a painter.
No one can argue with pictures
(re descriptions in Uncle ...
LOUISA MAE ALCOTT Housekeeping ain't no joke.
LOUIS MAY ALCOTT