We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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