"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want."
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"It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts."
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"Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them."
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"Let us be elegant or die! --Amy"
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"You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play"
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"…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."
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"The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps."
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"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."
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"No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles."
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"Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls."
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"…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow."
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"There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind."
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"Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is."
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"I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more."
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"But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity."
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"I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven."
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"…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together."
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"Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season."
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"My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all."
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"where I wholly love I wholly trust."
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