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People Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
- It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
- People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.
- 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…
- I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!
- If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any…
- I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I…
- ... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks…
- The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.
- 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…
- I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's…
- In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her…
- The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
- I hate ordinary people!
- Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
- …we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
- Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of…
- Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
- …what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
- …that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
- It's lovely to see people so happy.
- Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
- And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls…
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