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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Believe Giving Return
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Forever Heart Vanish Youth
It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Cruelty Kind Worst
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fact Half Stubborn
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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Half Interest Language
That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Animal Good Things Nature Spring
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
One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Girl Habit Little
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
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 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
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
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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Acquaintance Matter Tree Year
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Embroidery Star Way
Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Honeym Night Wine Wormwood
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

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