Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYShe had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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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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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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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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.
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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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