Abby May Alcott Quotes
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Let the world know you are alive!
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On her recently widowed father's much younger wife: My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.
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Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.
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Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
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I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences in my journal, than I do in reading much. Novels, even if they are good, pass out of my memory very rapidly. I enjoy it as I should a scene at the theatre; but am not essentially benefited by the incidents or morals. What more desirable at this period of my life than to find sources of daily peace and joy from within; that I think is true life.
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Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
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Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?