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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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…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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…


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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…if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield.


Louisa May Alcott


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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!


Louisa May Alcott


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Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.


Louisa May Alcott


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Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.


Louisa May Alcott


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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.


Louisa May Alcott


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I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…


Louisa May Alcott


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