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?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThat is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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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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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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