"I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."
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"It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them."
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"People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays."
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"Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell."
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"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
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"Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law."
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"We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people."
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"We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly."
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"life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom."
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"Every house needs a grandmother in it."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion."
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"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."
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"Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace."
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"Money is a needful and precious thing"
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"You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one."
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"Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it."
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"Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing."
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"One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy."
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"Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us."
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