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And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ... — Louisa May Alcott

Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only aim and end of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone. — Louisa May Alcott

... marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. — Louisa May 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

It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! — Louisa May Alcott

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

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

A lover is not worth having if he's not in earnest. — Louisa May Alcott

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

... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change. — Louisa May Alcott

I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Rivalry adds so much to the charm of one's conquests. — Louisa May Alcott

... for action is always easier than quiet waiting. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it ... — Louisa May Alcott

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

... what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. — Louisa May Alcott

... thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold. — Louisa May Alcott

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. — Amos Bronson Alcott

... she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg. — Louisa May Alcott

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. — Louisa May Alcott

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. — Amos Bronson Alcott

... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done. — Louisa May Alcott

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world ... — Louisa May Alcott

Faber's drawing-pencils; — Louisa May Alcott

Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see. — Louisa May Alcott

George is regularly jolly; though now he's a minister, — Louisa May Alcott

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not? — Louisa May Alcott

smile upon him far, far from foemen's power. And Mohammed, thinking to look upon a dying slave, shall — Louisa May Alcott

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost. — Louisa May Alcott

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. — Louisa May Alcott

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ... — Louisa May Alcott

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. — Amy Alcott

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me ... — Louisa May Alcott

How can girls like to have lovers and refuse them? I think it's dreadful. — Louisa May Alcott

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 — Louisa May Alcott

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way. — Louisa May Alcott

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes. — Louisa May Alcott

That's the interferingest chap I ever see, — Louisa May Alcott

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it? — Louisa May Alcott

... a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck. — Louisa May Alcott

Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!'" ~Rosamond — Louisa May Alcott

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh, — Louisa May Alcott

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

... courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration ... — Louisa May Alcott

Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something ... — Louisa May Alcott

... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ... — Louisa May Alcott

Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt. — Louisa May Alcott

... the violin - that most human of all instruments ... — Louisa May Alcott

Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort. — Louisa May Alcott

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her. — Louisa May Alcott

Let's hear the sound of the baby pianny. — Louisa May Alcott

That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it. — Louisa May Alcott

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. — Louisa May Alcott

... she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together. — Louisa May Alcott

... proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. — Louisa May Alcott

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

... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

If every one agreed, we should never get on. — 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

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

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

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

( ... ) replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself. — Louisa May Alcott

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want. — Louisa May Alcott

mother's Diana-like — Louisa May Alcott

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. — Amy Alcott

... that's what old people are here for, - else their experience is of little use. — Louisa May Alcott

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. — Louisa May Alcott

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, added little Amy, with an injured sniff. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. — Louisa May Alcott

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens — Louisa May Alcott

Trouble? Everybody gets into trouble in America
That's what it's about. — Kate Alcott

So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something. — Louisa May Alcott

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. — Louisa May Alcott

By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love. — Louisa May Alcott

There is no other help or hope for human weakness but God's love and patience. — Louisa May Alcott

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity! — Louisa May Alcott

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's. — Amos Bronson Alcott

... having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay ... — Louisa May Alcott

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests. — Louisa May Alcott

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister. — Louisa May Alcott