Louisa May Alcott

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty... ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#love

She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." - ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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