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“Life is a fight, and I like a good soldier.”
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“... to the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.”
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“Her father called her ‘Little Tranquillity’, and the name suited her excellently; for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved.”
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“It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.”
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“You men tell us we are angels, and say we can make you what we will; but the instant we honestly try to do you good, you laugh at us, and won't listen. which proves how much your flattery is worth.”
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“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copy-books; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end," he said, dolefully.”
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“I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
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“…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.”
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“…the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them.”
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“Let the world know you are alive!”
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“I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them.”
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“Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…”
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“…and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam.”
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“I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter…”
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“…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.”
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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.”
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“…but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.”
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“By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper)…”
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“The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women.”
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“…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.”
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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.”
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“…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…”
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“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…”
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“…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.”
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“…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.”
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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.”
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“…the child's heart bled when it was broken.”
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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…”
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“…notoriety is not real glory.”
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“If every one agreed, we should never get on.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.”
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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.”
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“…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.”
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“…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”
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“I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…”
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“In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…”
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“…he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self…”
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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.”
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“Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt.”
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“And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…”
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"Thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.”

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“Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.”
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“…but mortal man was helpless there…”
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“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.”
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“The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.”
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“Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.”
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