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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?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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College Everywhere Lesson Life
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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Degrad Evil Fear World
Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Alive Glad Lovely World
That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Animal Good Things Nature Spring
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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October September Skip World
Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Deal Desert Gently
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Back Book Come Hate
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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Ambition Anxiety Self
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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Comfort End Limit Mistake People
Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Honeym Night Wine Wormwood
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Bad Create Few People Thing
One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Girl Habit Little
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Imaginary Use World
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fact Half Stubborn
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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Duty Faces Found Friend
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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Arms Made Mother People

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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