I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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.
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