There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOne can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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