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.
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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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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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