"She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners."
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"Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air."
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"I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within."
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"Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive."
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"I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn."
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"He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard."
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"Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic."
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""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
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"Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests."
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"Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better."
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". . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
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"You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone."
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"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
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"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose."
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"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."
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"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."
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"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."
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"I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now."
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"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
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"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "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. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner."
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