It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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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 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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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