I was very sensitive. Sometimes I'd get my feelings hurt because I felt like an outcast. I was traveling alone. I didn't really have anyone to hang out with. I was a golfing machine. I'd play, I'd eat, I'd go back to a private house.


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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window on...
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and ha...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for oth...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you und...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Let us be elegant or die!
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To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and wit...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but ma...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his frien...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as yo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husb...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chival...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithf...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Many can argue; not many converse
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT