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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Animal Good Things Nature Spring
Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Sociable Tree Whispering
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Bad Create Few People Thing
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Anticipation Forward Half Look
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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Comfort End Limit Mistake People
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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October September Skip World
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Embroidery Star Way
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Encouraging Positive Uplifting
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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Arms Made Mother People
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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Half Interest Language
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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Lamb Twilight Winter
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
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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Believe Color Drab Rather Wise
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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Emotion Enjoy People Quiet Talk
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Look Pleasure World
In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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Night Sleep World

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