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He danced like a grasshopper on fire,

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Is it not meningitis?

Because, what?" "You won't tell?" "Never!" "Well, I have a bad trick

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.

What shall you do all your vacation?', asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg.

Yes, you do. You get everything you want out of people. I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler." "Thank you. Fire away.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

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

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -

You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one ... if he's the right one.

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

Because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

I haven't got any mother, you know.

Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed

Their best; get them out into the air; and cure their ills by the magnetism of more active,

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Into each life some rain must fall, Somedays must be dark and sad and dreary.

I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

George is regularly jolly; though now he's a minister,

It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy.

It was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.

Better destroy the body than the soul.'" ~Rosamond

Blowzy head to her shoulder and kissing the wet cheek so tenderly that Jo cried even harder.

We've got Father and Mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

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

How beautiful that is! said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.

Dolls are safe companions.

I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!

I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

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

I like adventures, and I'm going to find some.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

That's the interferingest chap I ever see,

I'm a bashful individual, though I can't get anyone to believe it ...

A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Many argue; not many converse.

Love is a great beautifier.

Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate,

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ...

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

Oh, Mother, help me, do help me!

it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it. It's

operatic tragedy began.

Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

... the violin - that most human of all instruments ...

When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

For a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

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

Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief.

To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.

You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways? said Meg reprovingly.

I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.

I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter ...

I could have been a great many things.

It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.

You think then, that it is better to have a few duties and live a little for others, do you?

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.

If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

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.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

I'm so fond of luxury

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

So I did, Beth. Well, I think we are. For though we do have to work, we make fun of ourselves,

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for

There, I've done my best. If that wont do, I shall have to wait till I can do better.

many queer things passed through it as through

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

if all else fails you can read

That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

A love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have,

Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good.

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

A capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.