A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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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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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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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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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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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