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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Sociable Tree Whispering
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Being Goodness Montgomery Thankful
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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Beautiful Inspiration Morning
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Forward Future Mistake Regret
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
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fact Half Stubborn
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Forever Heart Vanish Youth
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Look Pleasure World
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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May Stars Twilight
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Easy Imagination Reality
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Imagination Realms View
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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Little Lonely Sometimes
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
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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Anger Children Deceitful
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
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

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