Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMaples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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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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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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