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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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Comfort End Limit Mistake People
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
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Anticipation Forward Half Look
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
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
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
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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Dread Felt Mind Woman
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
It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Cruelty Kind Worst
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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Emotion Enjoy People Quiet Talk
I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Broken Heart Little Spite
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
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
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
It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Gables Graduation Green World
Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Deal Desert Gently

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

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