There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYNothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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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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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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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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 have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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