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Old Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing…
- At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but…
- They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on…
- For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for…
- Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
- 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…
- Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
- 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…
- …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…
- …that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
- Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
- The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious…
- Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her…
- The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
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