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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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People Thanks Uneasyness Worry
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
I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Broken Heart Little Spite
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
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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Degrad Evil Fear 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
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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Get Harder Satisfaction
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
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
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
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
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
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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Know Mean Wicked
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
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
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Anticipation Forward Half Look
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Easy Imagination Reality
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
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
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Long Memories Remember
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
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Look Pleasure World
I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Come Face Fact World
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Air Inspirational Mistake
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

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