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Went to Wiesbaden first, a pleasant, gay place, full of people.
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Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort it is.
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Lounging and larking doesn't pay," observed Jo, shaking her head. "I'm tired of it and mean to go to work at something right off."
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No Paris either, and that's the worst of it all!
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There was a good deal of laughing, and kissing, and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, then all fell to work." Little Women, Louisa May Alcott"
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is a good man, but he has his faults, and you must learn to see and bear with them, remembering your own. He is very decided, but never will be obstinate, if you reason kindly, not oppose impatiently. He is very accurate, and particular about the truth--a good trait, though you call him 'fussy'. Never deceive him by look or word, Meg, and he will give you the confidence you deserve, the support you need. He has a temper, not like ours--one ..
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said slowly, "May I ask you a question, dear?"
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smile upon him far, far from foemen's power. And Mohammed, thinking to look upon a dying slave, shall
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When you feel discontented, think over your blessings and be grateful
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The more you love and trust him, the nearer you will feel to him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom.
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His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness and strength.
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I don't understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?" she said, quite bewildered. "There is truth in it, Jo, that's the secret."
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No, Mother, it is better as it is, and I'm glad Amy has learned to love him. But you are right in one thing. I am lonely, and perhaps if Teddy had tried again, I might have said 'Yes,' not because I love him any more, but because I care more to be loved than when he went away.
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Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.
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He did not say a word, but took the hand she offered him, and laid his face down on it for a minute, feeling that out of the grave of a boyish passion, there had risen a beautiful, strong friendship to bless them both.
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I seldom ask questions of men, as they are not fond of gossip.
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Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!
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Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy, and whatever happens, remember that you never can be fatherless.
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Not until months afterward did Jo understand how she had the strength of mind to hold fast to the resolution she had made when she decided that she did not love her boy, and never could. It was very hard to do, but she did it, knowing that delay was both useless and cruel.
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she won't wish us to give up everything.
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the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty
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So I did, Beth. Well, I think we are. For though we do have to work, we make fun of ourselves,
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Love is a great beautifier
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But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.
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With tears and prayers and tender hands, Mother and sisters made her ready for the long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread.
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Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed
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If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what
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Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.
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I wish we could wash from our hearts and souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they. Then on the earth there would be indeed, A glorious washing day!
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I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.
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for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. When
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you have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it,
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He never spoke of himself, and in a conversation with Miss Norton divulged the pleasing fact. From her Jo learned it, and liked it all the better because Mr. Bhaer had never told it. She felt proud to know that he was an honored Professor in Berlin, though only a poor language-master in America, and his homely, hard-working life was much beautified by the spice of romance which this discovery gave it.
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Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, "Ha! Ha!" "It's the best we've had yet," said Meg, as the dead villain sat up and rubbed" --
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What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie. "Margaret." "Which do you like the best?"
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Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.
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Ought they to smoke like that?
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Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,
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At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will be. At thirty they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact, and if sensible, console themselves by remembering that they have twenty more useful, happy years, in which they may be learning to grow old gracefully.
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Genius. Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie?" And she slyly smiled in his disappointed face."
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