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Little Women (1868)
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…
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She'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
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You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.
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Often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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It was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…
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It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
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Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
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Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…
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Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
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I wait for a chance to confer a great favor, and let the small ones slip; but they tell best in the end, I fancy.
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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
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Misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it. … I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. … I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)
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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
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You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play
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Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.
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The homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.
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I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…
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They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand at them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Louisa May Alcott
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Born:
November 29, 1832
Died:
March 6, 1888
(aged 55)
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