Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMatthew, 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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in 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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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