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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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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Little Lonely Sometimes
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Believe Giving Return
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

Know Mean Wicked
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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Look Serious Sober
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
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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Believe Color Drab Rather Wise
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Embroidery Star Way
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
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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May Stars Twilight
I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Mind Own Trouble
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Anger Children Deceitful
Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Deal Desert Gently
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Forward Future Mistake Regret
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
I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Come Face Fact World
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Encouraging Positive Uplifting

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

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