"Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally."
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"It's lovely to see people so happy."
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"Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps."
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"A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun."
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"Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts."
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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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"Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride."
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"Some stories are so familiar its like going home."
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"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."
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"If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman."
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"Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends."
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"I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me."
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"... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted."
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"Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations."
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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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"Woman work a great many miracles."
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"...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself."
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"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."
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"When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman."
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"…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world."
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