She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYAnne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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