I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYFacts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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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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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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