"Souls and bodies should go on together."
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"Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness."
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"I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man."
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"I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm."
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"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."
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"No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man."
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"Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!"
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"Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!"
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"For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls."
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"I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy."
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"politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names"
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"Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds."
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"During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone"
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"Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!"
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"Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask."
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"I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy."
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"Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution."
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"The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death."
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"…men never forgive like women."
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"Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything."
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