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Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone.It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.

My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting. Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, content, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Meg's high-heeled slippers were very tight and hurt her, though she would not own it, and Jo's nineteen hairpins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

"Da ser det ut for meg," sa han, overrasket over sin egen djervhet, "at dersom jeg skal se opp til dere som et eksempel, da burde dere være et eksempel."

Et menneske kan gjøre seg selv sykt, og da må det samme mennesket helbrede seg selv igjen, det er min personlige teori.

Nå vel, en barndom er det man har lyst til å huske fra den. Den etterlater seg ikke noen fossiler, muligens bortsett fra i skjønnlitteraturen.

På samme måte som med en bit Indiana-kalkstein, sier han, kan et menneske kløyve livet sitt i den ene retningen eller i den andre; valget er fritt.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself.

I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see.

Fantasi er en normal menneskelig aktivitet. Den ødelegger eller knekker slett ikke Fornuften; og den avstumper heller ikke sansen for, eller hemmer oppfattelsen av, vitenskapelig sannhet. Tvert imot. Jo skarpere og klarere fornuften er, jo bedre fantasi vil den skape.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

"Han er bare uvitende," sa hun, "ikke ondsinnet".
Jeg hylte: "Å være uvitende og belære folk er ondsinnet."

'Sometimes', said Julia, 'I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.'

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

I agreed with my sister that it was abominably rude of her younger brother to be nearly an hour late to take her out to dinner, especially as she had been ready for at least twenty minutes.

Det er ikke sant at skjebnen kommer blindt inn i våre liv,nei. Skjebnen kommer inn gjennom den døren som vi holder åpen, og vi slipper skjebnen inn foran oss.

La fortiden ta seg av seg selv og la nåtiden bevege seg inn i fremtiden.

Noen ganger følte jeg sinne, men det meste av tiden følte jeg ingenting; jeg hadde aldri noen sinne følt så mye ingenting.