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Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.


Amy Alcott

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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you und...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Let us be elegant or die!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and wit...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but ma...
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." -
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his frien...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as yo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husb...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chival...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithf...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Many can argue; not many converse
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT