Louisa May Alcott Short Quotes

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I like good strong words that mean something.

Louisa May Alcott
Entrenching himself behind an undeniable fact.

Louisa May Alcott
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Louisa May Alcott
I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.

Louisa May Alcott
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up.

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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

Louisa May Alcott
Misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

Louisa May Alcott
The homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

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A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

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A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…

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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…

Louisa May Alcott
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

Louisa May Alcott
But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, — more's the pity!

Louisa May Alcott
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

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We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…

Louisa May Alcott
Marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

Louisa May Alcott
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Louisa May Alcott
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

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

Louisa May Alcott
It is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

Louisa May Alcott
Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

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I asked for bread, and got a stone, — in the shape of a pedestal.

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

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I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

Louisa May Alcott
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Louisa May Alcott
To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage...

Louisa May Alcott