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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Degrad Evil Fear World
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
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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Anger Children Deceitful
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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Get Harder Satisfaction
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Easy Imagination Reality
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Encouraging Positive Uplifting
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
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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Comfort End Limit Mistake People
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Sociable Tree Whispering
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Hope Life Perfect
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
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Bad Create Few People Thing
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Forward Future Mistake Regret
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Back Book Come Hate
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Imaginary Use World

All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

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