Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYtrees, 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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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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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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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