I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYAll life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Matthew, 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.
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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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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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