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.....and I shall think her very mean indeed if she does not give me some of her gloves, for she has many of them, I've seen them myself.......and as you can see, I took the hint.......but not much love went into THAT package did it, my dear? ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, 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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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