Thursday, June 21, 2012

Marriage advice from Mrs. March

"If rank and money come with love and virtue also, I should accept them gratefully and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house where the daily bread is earned and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.  I am content to see Meg begin humbly, for, if I am not mistaken, she will be rich in the possession of a good man's heart, and that is better than a fortune."  ~ Mrs. March, Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (page 245)

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