"To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep."
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Louisa May Alcott quotes (page 16 of 18)
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"Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient."
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"Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault."
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"Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions"
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"It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder."
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"We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~"
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"She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great."
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"If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally."
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"I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!"
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"My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child"
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"So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped."
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"Everybody has their days of misfortune."
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"Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather."
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"To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage."
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"Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power."
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"He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky."
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"{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love."
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"…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love."
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"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
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"There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work."
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