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Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see. ↗

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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio. ↗

— Hailey Abbott

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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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Some people are boys longer than others. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

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I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul. ↗