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…nothing remained but loneliness and grief… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”... ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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…the violin — that most human of all instruments… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries! ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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I hate ordinary people! ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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But, like all happiness, it did not last long… ↗