All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMarch 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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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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