Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMrs. 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?
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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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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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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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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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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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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 so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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