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…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.


Louisa May Alcott


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Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching," Would be the most appropriate motto for this chapter, because, intimidated by the threats, denunciations, and complaints showered upon me in consequence of taking the liberty to end a certain story as I liked, I now yield to the amiable desire of giving satisfaction, and, at the risk of outraging all the unities, intend to pair off everybody I can lay my hands on.


Louisa May Alcott


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…Mrs. Jo sat smiling over her book as she built castles in the air, just as she used to do when a girl, only then they were for herself, and now they were for other people, which is the reason perhaps that some of them came to pass in reality — for charity is an excellent foundation to build anything upon.


Louisa May Alcott


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…the child's heart bled when it was broken.


Louisa May Alcott


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…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.


Louisa May Alcott


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…courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration…


Louisa May Alcott


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We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.


Louisa May Alcott


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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.


Louisa May Alcott


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…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.


Louisa May Alcott


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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.


Louisa May Alcott


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