"Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."
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Louisa May Alcott quotes (page 11 of 18)
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"Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning."
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"Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man."
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"Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?"
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"Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe."
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"The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps."
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"I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you."
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"But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name."
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"He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many."
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"If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river."
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"Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide."
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"...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again."
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"Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world."
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"…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way."
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"...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose."
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"The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof."
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"Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!"
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"I think we are all hopelessly flawed."
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"…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use."
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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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