Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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