Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWhat had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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