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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Alive Glad Lovely World
One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Girl Habit Little
Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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Jest Look Lost Sorter Wicked
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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Diana Knee Speak
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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Ambition Anxiety Self
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Imagination Realms View
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Hope Life Perfect
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Forever Heart Vanish Youth
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Air Inspirational Mistake
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
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
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fact Half Stubborn
Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Deal Desert Gently
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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Night Sleep World
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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October September Skip World
most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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People Thanks Uneasyness Worry

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