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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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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Know Mean Wicked
I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Come Face Fact World
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Forever Heart Vanish Youth
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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Lamb Twilight Winter
It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Cruelty Kind Worst
It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Gables Graduation Green World
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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Little Lonely Sometimes
Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Sociable Tree Whispering
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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Ambition Anxiety Self
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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Believe Color Drab Rather Wise
most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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People Thanks Uneasyness Worry
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Encouraging Positive Uplifting
Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Deal Desert Gently
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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Duty Faces Found Friend
One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Girl Habit Little
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Half Interest Language

Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.

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