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A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally...
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now."
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romance
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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I could have been a great many things.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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love
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Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me...
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tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
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reading
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
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women
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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work
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tasks
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Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
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because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
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and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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romance
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Woman work a great many miracles.
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You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
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I hate ordinary people!
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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death
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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
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she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
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sisters
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the violin -- that most human of all instruments...
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violin
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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.
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we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people...
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twins
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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.
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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
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strength
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I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.
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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.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.
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When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not bei..
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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mothers
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but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
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We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.
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It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.
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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.
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men
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Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe...
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Louisa May Alcott |
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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