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?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYFancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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