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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYA child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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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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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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