We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYLife, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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