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He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots. — Kate Alcott

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. — Louisa May Alcott

... feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them. — Louisa May Alcott

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

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy. — Louisa May Alcott

One's outlook is a part of his virtue. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us. — Louisa May Alcott

It's so dreadful to be poor! — Louisa May Alcott

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. — Amos Bronson Alcott

I'd take it manfully, and be respected if I couldn't be loved — Louisa May Alcott

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. — Amos Bronson Alcott

CHAPTER FOURTEEN SECRETS Jo — Louisa May Alcott

That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct. — Louisa May Alcott

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country. — Amos Bronson Alcott

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it ... — Louisa May Alcott

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament. — Amos Bronson Alcott

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood. — Louisa May Alcott

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent. — Louisa May Alcott

It looks beautiful from out here, but nothing glitters quite as much when you get close up. — Kate Alcott

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams. — Amos Bronson Alcott

We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be. — Louisa May Alcott

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence. — Amos Bronson Alcott

For she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy. — Louisa May Alcott

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott

If you behaved properly, they would, but knowing you like their nonsense, they keep it up, and then you blame them. — Louisa May Alcott

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Many can argue - not many converse. — Amos Bronson Alcott

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. — Louisa May Alcott

Beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's — Louisa May Alcott

... I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo ... — Louisa May Alcott

For his Atlanta came panting up with flying hair, bright eyes, ruddy cheeks, and no signs of dissatisfaction in her face. — Louisa May Alcott

Do you consider shoes unhealthy? he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest — Louisa May Alcott

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can. — Louisa May Alcott

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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

But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress. — Louisa May Alcott

And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. — Louisa May Alcott

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. — Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Is that my boy?'
As sure as this is my girl! — Louisa May Alcott

And I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. — Louisa May Alcott

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 ... — Louisa May Alcott

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

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. — Louisa May Alcott

The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum. — Louisa May Alcott

Where the heart is the mind works best. — Louisa May Alcott

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. — Louisa May Alcott

The sweetness of self-denial and self-control, — Louisa May Alcott

At this command, to Rose's great dismay, six more hands were offered, and it was evident that she was expected to shake them all. — Louisa May Alcott

[It may be true that] men never know a pretty thing when they see it. [But men do] know a lady when they see one. — Louisa May Alcott

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor. — Amos Bronson Alcott

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. — Amos Bronson Alcott

I'm here, hold on to me, Jo, dear!" - Laurie — Louisa May Alcott

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. — Louisa May Alcott

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped. — Louisa May Alcott

His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness and strength. — Louisa May Alcott

If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what — Louisa May Alcott

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

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

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Don't give advice unless you're asked. — Amy Alcott

was a long upper hall full — Louisa May Alcott

I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo — Louisa May Alcott

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. — Louisa May Alcott

My parents didn't play golf. — Amy Alcott

... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. — Louisa May Alcott

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. — Louisa May Alcott

I could have been a great many things. — Louisa May Alcott

It's lovely to see people so happy. — Louisa May Alcott

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance. — Amos Bronson Alcott

It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything. — Louisa May Alcott

Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her — Louisa May Alcott

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted — Louisa May Alcott

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win. — Amy Alcott

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Love will make you show your heart someday... — Louisa May Alcott

He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend. — Louisa May Alcott

Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better. — Louisa May Alcott