That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWe are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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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.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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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