I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYIt’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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Anne, 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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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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