Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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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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