It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYIt’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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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 should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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